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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
.
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
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and
;: "The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of AssemblyLanguage with the power of AssemblyLanguage."
-[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 ObjectOrientatedProgrammingLanguage
, and which
in turn is
the inspiration for [CSharp],
MicrosoftCorporation's new language.
+[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 programming language
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.
----
-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 :).
+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 :).
/*
* Program to compute an approximation of pi
* by Brian Westley, 1988
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}
-(As seen in [
JargonFile:Obfuscated-C-Contest.html]
)
+(As seen in JargonFile:Obfuscated-C-Contest)
----
Various snippets of information about [C] in the wiki:
* CastingPointerToFunction
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CategoryProgrammingLanguages, CategoryImperativeProgrammingLanguages, CategoryMachineOrientedProgrammingLanguages, CategorySystemsProgrammingLanguages
