A further boost to the success of C came with the publication, in 1978, of The C Programming Language by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan. The book, a slim 228 page volume, was, even for the ...

If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages. But it’s still alive and kicking ...