Stephen C. Johnson created a “portable” compiler for this language at Bell Labs. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this language created by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. An object-oriented successor to this language appends “plus plus” to its name.
ANSWER: C [accept Portable C Compiler]
[10h] Object-oriented programming can be emulated in C with these features that, like classes, allow any number of user-specified member variables to be accessed via a single pointer.
ANSWER: structs
[10m] C lacks garbage collection, so programmers must eventually perform this action on variables declared via pointers with the “free” function. In C++, a function named for this action is roughly the opposite of “new.”
ANSWER: deallocation [or deallocating or delete or deleting or object destruction]
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