C

JTC1/SC22/WG14: the C standards committee web page: The current language definition, C99 (a most recent draft of the actual standard); see also an older version (or plain text); Rationale for the C99 standard; The soon to be approved (as of 2011) new language definition (a most recent draft of the actual standard)

Essential C: a set of course texts from the Stanford CS Education Library

C Programming: an online course

Hands On: C/C++ Programming and Unix Application Design, and a much extended version for printing: a book on C (and C++) programming and Unix system programming, including X/Motif

IOCCC: The International Obfuscated C Code Contest – extremely twisted and often truly ingenious C programs

Freely available implementations:: GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection for Linux. There are ports to MS DOS, MS Windows (or this), and Mac OS X; lcc and lcc-win32 for MS Windows; Pelles C: a compiler for MS Windows based on lcc; Pacific C for MS DOS (if currently unavailable, try this link and this for the documentation); TCC – The Tiny C Compiler: very small, very fast, and producing small code; pcc: the Portable C Compiler; clang: a C/C++/Objective-C/Objective-C++ frontend for LLVM; The EiC C Interpreter; Also see any C++ compiler

Tools:: Splint: a modern, open-source version of lint; Metre: a parser, a software-metrics tool, and a call-tree generator for C; CIL: a high-level representation along with a set of tools for program analysis and source-to-source transformation of C programs; CCured: a source-to-source translator for C, securing against memory safety violations

History. C’s ancestors:

The home page of Dennis M. Ritchie, the author of C: The Development of the C Language; also in PostScripts and in PDF; User’s reference to B; The Programming Language B