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The C Programming Language is quite possibly the most influential language of all time. It powers OS kernels like Linux, Windows, and Mac and many other low-level systems. Its syntax has inspired many ...

Dennis Ritchie started developing the C programming language (Fig. 1) in 1969 at AT&T’s Bell Labs. In 1972, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan delivered the quintessential book, The C Programming ...

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

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Microsoft’s fast-growing language for .NET may be poised to overtake Java in popularity for the first time, Tiobe said.

As the C language, which forms the basis of critical global software like operating systems, faces security limitations, ...

As the C language, which forms the basis of critical global software like operating systems, faces security limitations, ...