Saturday, January 16, 2010

C (programming language)

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The C Programming Language (aka "K&R"), the seminal book on C

C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.[2]

Although C was designed for implementing system software, it is also widely used for developing portable application software.[citation needed]

C is one of the most popular programming languages. It is widely used on many different software platforms, and there are few computer architectures for which a C compiler does not exist. C has greatly influenced many other popular programming languages, most notably C++, which originally began as an extension to C.

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