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@Gregozor2121 Dennis Ritchie is largely credited with the creation of the language, but Ken Thompson also worked on it. In fact, on Wikipedia, it just lists Dennis' name, not Ken's!
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@Gregozor2121 The story is Ken and Dennis wanted to implement a language called BCPL but the docs weren't available or something so they cut down the language and called it B, but B was too slow, so Dennis improved B and called it C
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hjk10157314y@matt-jd no there is not. APL was there before BCPL but A and A+ came much later. However only CPL, BCPL, B and C are direct descendants.
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One of the creators of:
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He is a freaking legend.
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