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== History ==

C was created by [[Dennis Ritchie]] at [[Bell Labs]] in the early 1970s as an augmented version of [[Ken Thompson]]'s [[B (programming language)|B]].<ref>{{cite webQ |Q29392176 |last=Ritchie |first=Dennis M. |author-link=Dennis Ritchie |publication-date=1993b }}</ref>

|url=https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

|last=Ritchie

|first=Dennis M.

|title=The Development of the C Language

|date=1993

|work=History of Programming Languages, 2nd Edition

|access-date=2018-11-11

}}</ref>

Another Bell Labs employee, [[Brian Kernighan]], had written the first C tutorial,<ref>{{cite web

|url=http://www.harmonyatwork.in/blog/2009/10/leap-in-and-try-things-brian-kernighan/