ASL STEM

Definition

C is a general-purpose, block structured, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.

Source: Reges & Stepp, 2007

Example

Example sentence for context: "The first complete program in their 1987 book describing the C language was an 'hello world' program."