What is the role of the programmer in c programming?

Answer 1

The role of any programmer is to translate an abstract concept into machine code. Programmers use programming languages to make it easier to perform this translation, using the computer itself to translate the human-readable source code. C is just one of many such languages and was (and still is to some extent) predominantly used to write general-purpose programs: applications software; device drivers; operating system kernels; subsystems; and so on. C++ now dominates the general-purpose programming field, producing code of such complexity that it would be difficult to write in C alone. Although C is a high-level language, the level of abstraction is so low that it is often regarded as being a mid-level language, more abstract than assembly language but less abstract than other high-level languages. However, just as C largely replaced assembly language programming, C++ has largely replaced C Programming. It still has its uses, but there is rarely the need to use anything lower than C++. Backward compatibility with C is still a major aspect of C++, thus much of C is still available from within C++ itself. Indeed, many C programs, with relatively minor alteration, can become perfectly valid C++ programs.

Although the role of the C programmer has diminished somewhat since the introduction of C++, there is still a huge amount of C code out there that's still in use today and someone has to maintain it. While we may use C++ to write much of today's software, there will always be a role for C programmers, just as there will always be a role for assembly programmers.