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B is a programming language developed at Bell Labs circa 1969. It is the work of Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie. B first appeared circa 1969.B was derived from BCPL and its name may be a contraction of BCPL. It is possible that its name may be based on Bon an earlier but unrelated and rather different programming language that Thompson designed for use on Multics.B was designed for recursive non-numeric machine independent applications such as system and language software.