C was primarily developed as a

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Answer: A. system programming language — 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…

A.
system programming language
B.
general purpose language
C.
data processing language
D.
None of the above

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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.

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