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Revision 22 . . (edit) December 18, 2001 5:29 am by Zundark [sentence]
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Revision 19 . . December 7, 2001 2:11 am by Taw [moved "Eccentrciity" to Talk]
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A programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie during the early 1970s to be used for operating system implementation and other low-level programming tasks.
C is a programming language that was designed by Dennis Ritchie during the early 1970s to be used for operating system implementation and other low-level programming tasks.

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C became immensely popular outside Bell Labs after about 1980 and is now the dominant language in systems and microcomputer applications programming. It is a staple of the Open Source community.
C became immensely popular outside Bell Labs after about 1980 and was for a time the dominant language in systems and microcomputer applications programming. It remains so as a systems programming language, and is a staple of the Open Source community.

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Bjarne Stroustrup and others at Bell Labs worked in the late 1980s to add object-oriented programming language constructs to C, creating a language called C++ (thus avoiding the issue of whether the successor to "B" and "C" should be "D" or "P").
Bjarne Stroustrup and others at Bell Labs worked in the late 1980s to add object-oriented programming language constructs to C, creating a language called C++ (thus avoiding the issue of whether the successor to "B" and "C" should be "D" or "P"). C++ is now the most common language used for commercial applications on Microsoft Windows systems, though C remains more popular in the Unix world.

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