Why is c called a free form language?

Answer 1

The C Programming language is "free form" because you can format the program's white space any way you want, so as to make it more readable and supportable.You can also make it less readable and supportable, a process called obfuscation, but that is considered irresponsible in a real-world environment. (I would warn, and then fire, anyone that obfuscates their code.) White space is the collection of spaces, tabs, and end-of-lines that serve to separate and format the rest of the code. The compiler does not care about white space format, because it converts each section of consecutive non quoted white space to a single delimiter before considering the code for compilation.