What is the purpose of C?

I was wondering if C is just meant for communication and processing information. I wonder this because i don't see much material about making GUIs and such.

So in a box "What is the purpose of C"

There are libraries available depending on what you want to do... here are some:
http://www.atai.org/guitool/

If you haven't worked with GUI programming before, I recommend getting that experience in another language, though. It would be easier to cross over from there.

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Originally Posted by Davez69gto

So in a box "What is the purpose of C"

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C is a general purpose programming language.

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Originally Posted by Davez69gto

I wonder this because i don't see much material about making GUIs and such.

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You might not have searched hard enough. For example, the Windows API provides a C interface, as does the cross platform GUI library GTK+.

C is originally created to build operating system but since has been popular it's been used as well to create applications.

And there are a lot of langugages where creating GUI is a lot easier than in C

So nothing prevents from choosing one of this languages to write a GUI part, while the engine will be written in C

C == Portable Assembly Language
...so in a nutshell C is your PAL
:D

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Originally Posted by itCbitC

C == Portable Assembly Language
...so in a nutshell C is your PAL
:D

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Actually, it's a lot higher level than that. Languages like Bliss and B are much closer to assembly language.

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Mats

C is the "new B" plus the preprocessor; the next step in the evolutionary process esp. since B is hardly used which in turn came from BCPL.

>C is the "new B" plus the preprocessor
There are a few minor additions besides the preprocessor. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Prelude

>C is the "new B" plus the preprocessor
There are a few minor additions besides the preprocessor. :rolleyes:

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For instance types other than "integer"/"pointer".

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Mats