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title: "08-intro-to-c"
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tags: 
- lecture
- cosc204
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Developed 1972 for Unix

- widely used
- diverse use
- low level
- not Object Or

> “C is an imperative procedural language supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope, and recursion, with a static type system. It was designed to be compiled to provide low-level access to memory and language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, all with minimal runtime support. Despite its low-level capabilities, the language was designed to encourage cross-platform programming. A standards-compliant C program written with portability in mind can be compiled for a wide variety of computer platforms and operating systems with few changes to its source code.” - wikipedia