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Type the following program into a standard text editor. Theory and practice working draft of september 19, 2005. This revision of the c language reference manual supports the 7. Ritchie at the bell telephone laboratories to develop the unix operating system. Our aim is to show the essential elements of the language in real programs, but. But before reading this book you should have some knowledge of programming. In 1983, the american national standards institute ansi established a committee whose goal was to produce an unambiguous and machineindependent definition of the language c, while still retaining its spirit.
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