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One of the most widely recognised [ProgrammingLanguage]s in the world.
-It was designed by DennisRitchie at [BellLabs]/[AT&T] (along with other famous people such as KenThompson and BrianKernighan) as the SystemsProgrammingLanguage
to write their portable [Unix] OperatingSystem in. It was originally derived from [BCPL] but evolved radically. [C] is a great SystemsProgrammingLanguage
, but blamed for many problems with applications which many complain it is unsuited for.
+It was designed by DennisRitchie at [BellLabs]/[AT&T] (along with other famous people such as KenThompson and BrianKernighan) as the systems ProgrammingLanguage
to write their portable [Unix] OperatingSystem in. It was originally derived from [BCPL] but evolved radically. [C] is a great systems ProgrammingLanguage
, but blamed for many problems with applications which many complain it is unsuited for.
The original version of [C] made many assumptions and led to [Lint] being written to check whether these assumptions were likely to be unsafe. Many of these assumptions were removed by [ANSI-C] and the remainder of [Lint]'s job merged into that of the compilers.
From fortune(6):
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[C] has inspired an entire class of languages, including [C++] which some say fixes many problems with [C], while others debate is just a horrible mess. [Java] has decended from [C++] as a portable, clean [object oriented|ObjectOrientation] language, itself in turn the inspiration for MicrosoftCorporation's new language called [CSharp].
See the [C History|http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html].
-I recommend you learn [C], and use it for writing OperatingSystems
, and understanding how things actually are implemented, but then code in some other ProgrammingLanguage if you are going to write applications, especially networking programs.
+I recommend you learn [C], and use it for writing [OperatingSystem]s
, and understanding how things actually are implemented, but then code in some other ProgrammingLanguage if you are going to write applications, especially networking programs.
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The following example is a program to approximate the value of pi (Compile it with __gcc -traditional-cpp -o pi pi.c__). If you want a better approximation, increase the program's source code area :).
