C
C a programming language developed at Bell Laboratories in the 1970s,
based on the two earlier languages B (1970) and BCPL (1967).
A C compiler is provided as a part of the UNIX operating system (see UNIX), and
C was used to write most of UNIX itself....
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C
C a programming language developed at Bell Laboratories in the 1970s,
based on the two earlier languages B (1970) and BCPL (1967).
A C compiler is provided as a part of the UNIX operating system (see UNIX), and
C was used to write most of UNIX itself.
In addition, C is popular as an
alternative to assembly language for writing highly efficient microcomputer programs.
There is a widespread (and often mistaken) belief that
programs written in C are more efficient than programs written in any
other language.
C is a general-purpose language like Pascal and ALGOL, but, unlike
other general-purpose languages, it gives the programmer complete
access to the machine’s internal (bit-by-bit) representation of all types of
data.
This makes it convenient to perform tasks that would ordinarily
require assembly language, and to perform computations in the most
efficient way of which the machine is capable.
/* CHKSUM.
C */
/* Sample program in C —M.
Covington 1991 */
/* Based on a program by McL
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