C

concept · 1972 · Digital age

The systems language of Unix (Ritchie).

Developers: Bell Labs, Dennis M. Ritchie, American National Standards Institute, International Organization for Standardization.

Where it is used

• Unix — is used in. Unix was rewritten in C.

History: what it evolved from and what it influenced

• C++ — evolved into. C with classes.
• Python — evolved into. The CPython interpreter is written in C.

What it is a kind of

• Programming language — is a kind of. A language.

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