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jan 1, 1972 - C

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A general-purpose, procedural, imperative computer programming language. C has become one of the most widely used programming languages of all time, subsequent generations of it such as C# and C++ are frequently used in development. It was developed by Dennis M. Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in order to create the Unix operating system.

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jan 1, 1972
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~ 53 years ago