It has become one of the most widely used programming languages, with C compilers available for almost all modern computer architectures and operating systems. During the 1980s, C gradually gained popularity. It was applied to re-implementing the kernel of the Unix operating system. It has found lasting use in operating systems, device drivers, protocol stacks, though decreasingly for application software, and is common in computer architectures that range from the largest supercomputers to the smallest microcontrollers and embedded systems.Ī successor to the programming language B, C was originally developed at Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie between 19 to construct utilities running on Unix. By design, C's features cleanly reflect the capabilities of the targeted CPUs. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie, and remains very widely used and influential.
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