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Shirish Chavan, C Recipes, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2967-5_1

1. Welcome to C

Shirish Chavan

(1)Sangli, Maharashtra, India

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C is a procedural programming language. The early history of C is closely parallel to the history of UNIX. This is because C was specifically developed to write the operating system UNIX, which was introduced by Bell Laboratories in 1969 as an alternative to the Multics operating system for the PDP-7 computer. The original version of UNIX was written in assembly language, but programs written in assembly language are less ...

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