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{{language|C}}<div class="messagebox">Due to technical limitations, the link [[C sharp|C#]] points to here in some articles.
'''C''' is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the [[UNIX]] operating system. It has since spread to many other platforms, and is now one of the most widely used programming languages. C has also greatly influenced many other popular languages, such as [[C++]] and [[Objective-C]], which were originally designed as enhancements to C. People are so familiar with its syntax that many other languages such as [[AWK]], [[PHP]], [[Java]], [[JavaScript]], [[D]], and [[C Sharp|C#]] deliberately used its "look and feel". C is the most commonly used programming language for writing system software, though it is also widely used for writing applications. [[C]] is the ''lingua franca'' of the [[open source]] community.
==Versions==
* '''K&R C''' was the first widely-used form of C.
* '''C89''' (often called '''ANSI C''') is the version of C standardized by ANSI in 1989.
* '''C90''' (often called '''ISO C''') is a minor improvement to C89, standardized by ISO in 1990.
* '''C99''' is a significant improvement, adopting many features of [[C++]] and standardizing common compiler extensions.
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