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Cisageneral-purpose,
imperativecomputerprogramminglanguage,
supportingstructuredprogramming,
lexicalvariablescopeandrecursion,
whileastatictypesystempreventsmanyunintendedoperations.
Bydesign,
Cprovidesconstructsthatmapefficientlytotypicalmachineinstructions,
andthereforeithasfoundlastinguseinapplicationsthathadformerlybeencodedinassemblylanguage,
includingoperatingsystems,
aswellasvariousapplicationsoftwareforcomputersrangingfromsupercomputerstoembeddedsystems.
CwasoriginallydevelopedbyDennisRitchiebetween1969and1973atAT&TBellLabs,
[5]andusedtore-implementtheUnixoperatingsystem.
[6]Ithassincebecomeoneofthemostwidelyusedprogramminglanguagesofalltime,
[7][8]withCcompilersfromvariousvendorsavailableforthemajorityofexistingcomputerarchitecturesandoperatingsystems.
ChasbeenstandardizedbytheAmericanNationalStandardsInstitute(ANSI)since1989(seeANSIC)andsubsequentlybytheInternationalOrganizationforStandardization(ISO).