Who is credited with developing the “C” language?

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The correct answer is Dennis Ritchie.

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C programming is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative computer programming language created by Dennis M. Ritchie at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1972 to help build the UNIX operating system.
The most extensively used computer language is C. Dennis Ritchie created C, a successor to the programming language B, at Bell Labs between 1972 and 1973 to build tools that ran on Unix.
It was used to re-implement the Unix operating system's kernel.
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was a computer scientist from the United States.
He designed the C programming language, as well as the Unix operating system and the B programming language, alongside long-time collaborator Ken Thompson.

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