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Which programming language, developed at Bell Labs in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie, became the foundation for operating systems like Unix and Linux?
Answer
C
Dennis Ritchie developed the C programming language at Bell Labs in 1972, primarily to rewrite the Unix operating system. Its portability and efficiency made it foundational to nearly all modern operating systems and influenced countless subsequent languages.
💡 Did you know?
Linux, which runs the majority of the world's servers and powers Android phones, was written in C — a language created before most of its programmers were born.
Other options people guess
- FORTRAN
- COBOL
- Pascal
Topics
- programming
- 1970s
- bell-labs
- operating-systems
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