this gave me hope for making this post: Looking for a 90's shooter-platformer game FIRST GAME: it was a strategy game, city developing game. I remember it was themed in the middle ages, so you had main screen where you could see the "factories" and you have to upgrade them to make more wool, coal...

In C, '' is used to denote a character, while "" is used to denote a string. Why was this syntax chosen? I tried to research this using Wikipedia’s Timeline of Programming Languages along with Rosetta Code’s reference page for strings. It seems that C was the first widespread programming language...