Introduction

• 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Lab.

• ALGOL60 ? CPL ? BCPL ? B ? C

• ANSI C: standardised.

• C is a high-level language.

• C is a procedural language.

• C is baffling to look at, easy to mess up, and tricky to learn.

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