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This programming language originated a comma operator that discards the results of all operands except the rightmost one. The K&R indentation style was developed for this language in a textbook by Brian Kernighan and its creator Dennis Ritchie. (10[2])This language was created to develop the Unix (10[1])standard kernel. The “free” and “malloc” (10[1])functions are typically (10[1])used to allocate (10[1])memory (10[1])in this language. This is the oldest in a family of languages that use an asterisk to represent pointers, including an object-oriented successor developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. For 10 points, what language featuring “sharp” and “plus plus” (10[2])extensions is named for a single letter? ■END■

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