The Register on MSN

How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C

Robin Rowe talks about coding, programming education, and China in the age of AI feature TrapC, a memory-safe version of the ...
InfoWorld

4 C programming courses for every skill level

Even with so many other system-level languages to choose from, C remains the popular choice. Many key projects—such as the Linux kernel and the Python runtime—still use C, and they will likely do so ...
InfoWorld

Why the C programming language still rules

The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon. The C programming language has been ...
Ars Technica

“A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C

In one form or another, C has influenced the shape of almost every programming language developed since the 1980s. Some languages like C++, C#, and objective C are intended to be direct successors to ...
Electronic Design

What’s The Difference Between C – Now and Then

Dennis Ritchie started developing the C programming language (Fig. 1) in 1969 at AT&T’s Bell Labs. In 1972, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan delivered the quintessential book, The C Programming ...
Electronic Design

Thompson, Ritchie, And Kernighan: The Fathers Of C

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Ritchie and Thompson both worked with BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language), which was used on Multics. It was the ...