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C programming language

In computing, C is a general-purpose, cross-platform, block structured, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. Although C was designed for implementing system software, it is also widely used for developing application software. It is widely used on a great many different software platforms and computer architectures, and several popular compilers exist. C has greatly... full article at wikipedia

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Dennis Ritchie

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The C Programming Language	Dennis Ritchie Brian Kernighan
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C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.	Bjarne Stroustrup
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LPJ v3.1	****
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ED - Princeton implementation	-
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