With the requirement to include file inclusion procedures present in PL/I and BPCL, the preprocessors were introduced in C at the time of 1973 with the request of Alan Snyder. The initial version of the preprocessor provided only file inclusion procedures and string replacement through #include and #define. Whereas the later versions of (John Reiser and Mike Lesk) offered macros together with arguments and conditional compilations. That’s how the development of the preprocessor took place and n … [Read more...]
What is a Programming Language and Different Types
Nowadays, there are numerous programming languages are becoming more general and all-purpose, but these languages have their specialties, and each language has its own advantages and disadvantages. Usually, programming languages can be classified into a few types, however, these languages support multiple programming style. Every year there are a number of programming languages are implemented, but few languages are becoming very popular which may used by a professional programmer in their c … [Read more...]