C Programming Language History Quiz

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1972

Dennis Ritchie

UNIX

Low-level and high-level memory access, a handy set of keywords, and a neat and clean style Signup and view all the answers

General-purpose and procedural-oriented Signup and view all the answers

Dennis Ritchie Signup and view all the answers

AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, USA Signup and view all the answers

Low-level memory access, high-level memory access, handy set of keywords, and a neat and clean style Signup and view all the answers

UNIX operating system Signup and view all the answers

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C is a general-purpose, procedural-oriented programming language that is structured and machine-independent.
Developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1972 at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, USA.
Created alongside the UNIX operating system, with which it is strongly linked.
Originally designed as a system implementation language to write an operating system.
Key features include low-level and high-level memory access, making it a middle-level programming language.
Features a concise set of keywords and a clean style, making it suitable for system programming.
Offers a wide range of built-in functions, standard libraries, and header files.
Follows a top-down approach in programming.
Many languages have derived syntax and functionality from C.