The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon.

Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan join other notable technologist in Electronic Design's Engineering Hall of Fame for their work including the C programming language.

C++ is currently the fastest growing programming language in Tiobe's popularity index and it's probably due to the arrival of C++20.

Dennis Ritchie, father of C programming language, dies In addition to C, the pioneering computer scientist made significant contributions to Unix and received many awards honoring his work.

Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the programming language C and the co-inventor of the UNIX operating system has shuffled off this mortal coil. His contributions to contemporary computing are so ...

The C language by far is the most popular programming language. C originated at Bell Labs while writing the first UNIX operating system for a DEC PDP-7 computer with only 8K bytes of memory by the ...

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Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and co-creator of the Unix operating system, has died aged 70.