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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.
+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.
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.
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