C

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At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

6

In collections

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What Wikipedia says

C is a general-purpose programming language created in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie. By design, C gives programmers relatively direct access to the features of typical CPU architectures, customized for the target instruction set.

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