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What makes C a widely used programming language?
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"The C programming language is a relatively old language, but still widely used. It is universal in that nearly every system, platform, and operating system has a C compiler that produces machine code for that system. C is used extensively in systems programming for operating system kernels, embedded systems, microcontrollers, and supercomputers. It is generally an “imperative” language which is a paradigm that characterizes computation in terms of executable statements and functions that change a program’s state (variable values)."
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