Programming C without variables is like, well, programming C without variables. They are so essential to the language that it doesn’t even require an analogy here. We can declare and use them as ...

When you use variables in C, the compiler associates a particular location in memory (by address) with the variable name you give it.

Mastering the C programming language - a classic code environment used to build software, apps, and whole operating systems - is a great skill, and Mac OS X makes it easy to learn. Here's how to ...

So the world of programming became divided, roughly, into two tribes. If software needed to run fast or on a tiny chip in an embedded device, it was more likely to be written in C or C++.