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Short description
Designed by Dennis Ritchie in the early 1970s for Unix, C standardized through ANSI C and later ISO revisions (C99, C11, C17, C23).
Timeline idea
Early 1970s → C created
ANSI C (C89/C90)
C99 / C11 / C17 / C23
Influence on C++/Java/C#/many others