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C
C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.
Although C was designed for implementing system software, it is also widely used for developing portable application software.
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Cyclone programming language
The Cyclone programming language is intended to be a safe dialect of the C programming language. Cyclone is designed to avoid buffer overflows and other vulnerabilities that are endemic in C programs, without losing the power and convenience of C as...
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Objective-C
Objective-C is a reflective, object-oriented programming language, which adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language.
Today it is used primarily on Apple's Mac OS X and iPhone OS: two environments based on, although not compliant...
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- 1986
C++
C++ (pronounced "See plus plus") is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as a middle-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language...
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- Object-oriented programming ,
- Generic programming ,
- Multi-paradigm programming language ,
- Procedural programming
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- 1983
Cilk
Cilk is a general-purpose programming language designed for multithreaded parallel computing.
The biggest principle behind the design of the Cilk language is that the programmer should be responsible for exposing the parallelism, identifying...
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Unified Parallel C
Unified Parallel C (UPC) is an extension of the C programming language designed for high-performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, including those with a common global address space (SMP and NUMA) and those with distributed memory (eg....
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C*
C* is an object-oriented, data-parallel superset of ANSI C with synchronous semantics, for the Connection Machine, designed by Thinking Machines, 1987. C* adds a "domain" data type and a selection statement for parallel execution in domains.
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- Object-oriented programming ,
- Parallel computing ,
- Imperative programming ,
- Multi-paradigm programming language
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- 1987
Split-C
The Split-C project website describes Split-C as:
a parallel extension of the C programming language that supports efficient access to a global address space on current distributed memory multiprocessors. It retains the "small language" character of...
