As an undergraduate, Rob Pike first read Brian Kernighan's book on the C programming language while home sick from classes at the University of Toronto. "I lay in bed and I read it cover to cover," ...

Dennis Ritchie, co-author of The C Programming Language, recently passed away. The embedded community has been built on the C programming language. It remains at the top of the list for programming ...

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 in more ...

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 ...