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The Development of the C Language

ACM SIGPLAN Notices (1993) 28(3) 201-208
DOI: 10.1145/155360.155580
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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. © 1993, ACM. All rights reserved.

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Ritchie, D. M. (1993). The Development of the C Language. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 28(3), 201–208. https://doi.org/10.1145/155360.155580

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