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  1. C is an imperative procedural language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope, and recursion, with a static type system. It was designed to be compiled to provide low-level access to memory and language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, all with minimal runtime support.

  2. C-sharp musical note. The name "C sharp" was inspired by the musical notation whereby a sharp symbol indicates that the written note should be made a semitone higher in pitch. [38] This is similar to the language name of C++, where "++" indicates that a variable should be incremented by 1 after being evaluated.

  3. The C Programming Language (sometimes termed K&R, after its authors' initials) is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the C programming language, as well as co-designed the Unix operating system with which development of the language was closely ...

    • Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
    • 1978
  4. The C programming language is a computer programming language developed in the early 1970s by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. They used it to improve the UNIX operating system. It is still much used today.

  5. Sep 10, 2024 · C, computer programming language developed in the early 1970s by American computer scientist Dennis M. Ritchie at Bell Laboratories. C was designed as a minimalist language to be used in writing operating systems for minicomputers, and it remains popular in the world of UNIX-like operating systems.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  6. May 23, 2024 · Early C. 1969: B created, based on BCPL, to replace PDP-7 assembler as the system programming language for Unix. added operators ++, --, compound assignment, remained a typeless language like BCPL. 1971: NB ("new B") created when porting B to PDP-11.

  7. Mar 30, 2020 · Programs written in C can read and write any character set, provided the libraries that support them are included/used. The source code for C programs, however, is usually limited to the ASCII character set.

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