The C Programming Language

The C Programming Language - authoritative programming book by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the developers of the C programming language. This book is the 1178^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 831^st most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article "The C Programming Language" in English Wikipedia has 30 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 6 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "The C Programming Language" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "The C Programming Language", its content was written by 249 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 542 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The C Programming Language is on the 831^st place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 1178^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 83 times in English Wikipedia and cited 421 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4787 in November 2001
• Global: #4962 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #10076 in October 2011
• Global: #17137 in October 2011

There are 21 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) The C Programming Language		30.0257
2	Ukrainian (uk) Мова програмування C (книга)		29.3957
3	Portuguese (pt) The C Programming Language		23.1937
4	Vietnamese (vi) The C Programming Language		22.9301
5	Arabic (ar) لغة البرمجة سي (كتاب)		20.5159
6	Spanish (es) El lenguaje de programación C		17.0869
7	Russian (ru) Язык программирования Си (книга)		16.7857
8	Serbian (sr) Програмски језик C (књига)		16.5887
9	Chinese (zh) C程序设计语言 (书)		13.7033
10	Japanese (ja) プログラミング言語C		11.4886

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "The C Programming Language" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The C Programming Language		3 429 594
2	Russian (ru) Язык программирования Си (книга)		218 933
3	Spanish (es) El lenguaje de programación C		207 631
4	Japanese (ja) プログラミング言語C		132 071
5	Chinese (zh) C程序设计语言 (书)		91 197
6	Polish (pl) Język ANSI C		81 221
7	German (de) The C Programming Language		78 905
8	Italian (it) Il linguaggio C		73 044
9	French (fr) The C Programming Language		66 138
10	Portuguese (pt) The C Programming Language		33 749

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "The C Programming Language" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The C Programming Language		13 955
2	Russian (ru) Язык программирования Си (книга)		808
3	Japanese (ja) プログラミング言語C		463
4	Spanish (es) El lenguaje de programación C		386
5	Chinese (zh) C程序设计语言 (书)		329
6	Italian (it) Il linguaggio C		322
7	French (fr) The C Programming Language		264
8	German (de) The C Programming Language		232
9	Polish (pl) Język ANSI C		119
10	Portuguese (pt) The C Programming Language		89

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "The C Programming Language" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The C Programming Language		249
2	Italian (it) Il linguaggio C		42
3	French (fr) The C Programming Language		29
4	Chinese (zh) C程序设计语言 (书)		28
5	Danish (da) The C Programming Language		26
6	Russian (ru) Язык программирования Си (книга)		22
7	German (de) The C Programming Language		21
8	Czech (cs) The C Programming Language		16
9	Spanish (es) El lenguaje de programación C		16
10	Japanese (ja) プログラミング言語C		12

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "The C Programming Language" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The C Programming Language		4
2	Italian (it) Il linguaggio C		1
3	Japanese (ja) プログラミング言語C		1
4	Russian (ru) Язык программирования Си (книга)		1
5	Chinese (zh) C程序设计语言 (书)		1
6	Arabic (ar) لغة البرمجة سي (كتاب)		0
7	Czech (cs) The C Programming Language		0
8	Danish (da) The C Programming Language		0
9	German (de) The C Programming Language		0
10	Greek (el) The C Programming Language		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "The C Programming Language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The C Programming Language		83
2	Japanese (ja) プログラミング言語C		81
3	Chinese (zh) C程序设计语言 (书)		54
4	Ukrainian (uk) Мова програмування C (книга)		29
5	Italian (it) Il linguaggio C		28
6	Russian (ru) Язык программирования Си (книга)		18
7	Arabic (ar) لغة البرمجة سي (كتاب)		14
8	German (de) The C Programming Language		14
9	Persian (fa) زبان برنامه‌نویسی سی (کتاب)		14
10	French (fr) The C Programming Language		13

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لغة البرمجة سي (كتاب)
cs	Czech The C Programming Language
da	Danish The C Programming Language
de	German The C Programming Language
el	Greek The C Programming Language
en	English The C Programming Language
es	Spanish El lenguaje de programación C
fa	Persian زبان برنامه‌نویسی سی (کتاب)
fr	French The C Programming Language
id	Indonesian The C Programming Language
it	Italian Il linguaggio C
ja	Japanese プログラミング言語C
no	Norwegian Programmeringsspråket C
pl	Polish Język ANSI C
pt	Portuguese The C Programming Language
ru	Russian Язык программирования Си (книга)
sr	Serbian Програмски језик C (књига)
sv	Swedish The C Programming Language
uk	Ukrainian Мова програмування C (книга)
vi	Vietnamese The C Programming Language
zh	Chinese C程序设计语言 (书)

Best Rank

English: #10076 10.2011

Global: #17137 10.2011

Best Rank

English: #4787 11.2001

Global: #4962 11.2001

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