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One of the most widely recognised [ProgrammingLanguage]s in the world.
It was designed by DennisRitchie (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.
-The original version of [C] made many assumptions and led to [Lint] being written to check whether these accumptions
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.
+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):
;; C, n. : A ProgrammingLanguage that is sort of like [Pascal] except more like AssemblyLanguage except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't. %%% -- Ray Simard
