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

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