But despite being an early programming language, created in the 1970s by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, C's popularity has dipped in recent years. It dropped from eighth to ninth place on GitHub ...

If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages.

C++, which sees a significant amount of use within Google, is similarly a successor of sorts to the original C programming language. Advertisement - scroll for more content.