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 | | C came into being in the years 1969-1973, in parallel with the early development of the Unix operating system; the most creative period occurred during 1972. |
 | | In particular, the C standard did not attempt to specify formally the language semantics, and so there can be dispute over fine points; nevertheless, it successfully accounted for changes in usage since the original description, and is sufficiently precise to base implementations on it. |
 | | Compilers in 1977, and even well after, did not complain about usages such as assigning between integers and pointers or using objects of the wrong type to refer to structure members. |
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