C

The Foundation of Modern Programming

First appeared: 1972Designed by: Dennis Ritchie

A procedural language that forms the bedrock of operating systems, embedded systems, and countless other languages.

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Procedural

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
  printf("Hello, World!\n");
  return 0;
}

Developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs between 1969 and 1973 for the Unix operating system. Standardized as ANSI C in 1989.

Type system: Static