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The programming language C was derived from, and based on, a programming language called...


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B (authored mainly by Ken Thompson at Bell Labs).

Languages derived from C include Objective C (used by Apple in Mac OS X), C++, and Java.

Prior to standardization by the American National Standards Institute, the most popular "version" of C was "K & R C" where K&R stood for Kernighan and Ritchie, two of the developers of the language at Bell Labs.