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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 (10[1])was developed (10[1])for this language in a textbook by Brian Kernighan (-5[1])and its creator Dennis Ritchie. (10[2])This language was created to develop the Unix standard kernel. (10[1])The (10[1])“free” and “malloc” functions are typically used to allocate memory in this language. (10[1])This is the oldest in a family of languages that use an asterisk to represent pointers, including an object-oriented successor (10[1])developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. For 10 points, what language featuring “sharp” and “plus (10[1])plus” (10[1])extensions (10[1])is named for a single letter? ■END■ (10[1])

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