Advantage of C

1. It contains a powerful data definition. The data type supported are characters, alpha-numeric integers, long integer, floats and double. It also supports string manipulation in the form of character array.
2. C supports a powerful set of operation.
3. It also supports powerful graphic programming and directly operates with hardware. Execution of program is faster.
4. An assembly code is also inserted into C programs.
5. C programs are highly portable on any type of OS platforms.
6. System programs such as compilers, operating system can be developed in C. For example the popular operating system UNIX is developed in C.
7. The C language has 32 keywords and about 145 library function and near about 30 header files.
8. C works closely with machines and matches assembly language in many ways.