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C Language Overview

A small, fast, portable systems language created by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs (1972) to write Unix.

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C gives direct control of memory and hardware with little runtime overhead, which is why operating systems, firmware, databases and language interpreters (including CPython) are written in it. The trade-off: the programmer is responsible for memory safety.

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