<sod> '''B''' was the name of a programming language developed at [[Bell Labs]]. It is almost extinct, as it was replaced by [[BCPL]] and [[C programming language|C]].
 It was mostly the work of [[Ken Thompson]] with contributions from [[Dennis Ritchie]], and first appeared in [[1969]] or thereabouts.
 
 It was essentially the BCPL system stripped of any component that Thompsons felt he could do without, in order to make it fit within the memory capacity of the minicomputers of the time. The language also included some changes made to suit Thompson's preferences (mostly along the lines of reducing the number of non-whitespace characters in a typical program).
 <eod> <sod>'''B''' was the name of a programming language developed at [[Bell Labs]]. It is almost extinct, as it was replaced by the [[C programming language|C]].
 It was mostly the work of [[Ken Thompson]] with contributions from [[Dennis Ritchie]], and first appeared in [[1969]] or thereabouts.
 
 It was essentially the BCPL system stripped of any component that Thompsons felt he could do without, in order to make it fit within the memory capacity of the minicomputers of the time. The language also included some changes made to suit Thompson's preferences (mostly along the lines of reducing the number of non-whitespace characters in a typical program).
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