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C
The C Programming Language, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the original edition that served for many years as an informal specification of the language.
Paradigm
imperative (procedural) systems implementation language
Appeared in
1972
Designed by
Dennis Ritchie
Developer
Dennis Ritchie & Bell Labs
Typing discipline
static, weak
Major implementations
GCC, MSVC, Borland C, Watcom C
Influenced by
B (BCPL,CPL), ALGOL 68[1] , Assembly, PL/I, FORTRAN
Influenced
awk, csh, C++, C#, Objective-C, BitC, D, Java, JavaScript, Limbo, Perl, PHP, Python
C is a general-purpose, 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.[2] It has since spread to many other platforms. Although C was designed as a system implementation language,[3][4] it is also widely used for applications. C has also greatly influenced many other popular languages,[5] especially C++, which was originally designed as an extension to C.