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In What Year Was the First Book of C Published? A. 1819 B. 2010 C. 1978 D. 192 O

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In what year was the first book of C published? a. 1819 b. 2010 c. 1978 d. 192 o

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c. 1978The first edition of *The C Programming Language*, by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, was published in 1978. This book is often referred to as "K&R C" and became the de facto standard for the language for many years.