C

C is credited to Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in 1972. c was originally a systems language for UNIX on the PDP-11 and was briefly named NB. Partly due to its free distribution with UNIX, c became the language most widely used for software implementation. c has gone through a few incarnations, including K&R (Kernighan and Ritchie) C, and ANSI C, and has been lately revamped as the object-oriented C++.

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