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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]-5[1])This language (-5[1])was created to develop the Unix standard kernel. The “free” and “malloc” functions are typically used to allocate memory (10[1])in this language. (-5[1])This is the oldest in a family of languages that use (10[1])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[1])extensions (10[1])is named for a single letter? ■END■ (10[2])

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