C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by [URL=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie”]Dennis Ritchie at the [URL=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Telephone_Laboratories”]Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the [URL=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix”]Unix [URL=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system”]operating system.[URL=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_language#cite_note-ie-1”]
Although C was designed for implementing system software,[URL=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_language#cite_note-4”] it is also widely used for developing portable [URL=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_software”]application software.
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