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The development of the C language

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AuthorsDennis M. Ritchie
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Year1993
Citekeyritchie1993development

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Pages201--208

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DOI10.1145/154766.155580
OpenAlexW2129075596

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Abstract

The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a system implementation language for the nascent Unix operating system. Derived from the typeless language BCPL, it evolved a type structure; created on a tiny machine as a tool to improve a meager programming environment, it has become one of the dominant languages of today. This paper studies its evolution.

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@misc{ritchie1993development,
  title        = {The development of the C language},
  author       = {Dennis M. Ritchie},
  year         = {1993},
  pages        = {201--208},
  doi          = {10.1145/154766.155580},
}

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