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Ken Thompson, American computer scientist and programmer, co-developed the B programming language

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Ken Thompson

American computer scientist known for Unix

Kenneth Lane Thompson is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C language, and…
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B (programming language)

Procedural programming language

B is a programming language developed at Bell Labs circa 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
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