C was primarily developed as a
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C was primarily developed as a
- A.
system programming language
- B.
general purpose language
- C.
data processing language
- D.
None of the above
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Correct answer: A
The C programming language was primarily developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in the early 1970s. Its main purpose was system programming, specifically to rewrite the Unix operating system kernel and utilities.