What was the B programming language a predecessor to?
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C, the predecessor of the B programming language, was developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in the 1970s. Inspired by Ken Thompson's earlier language BCPL, C aimed to combine the efficiency of assembly language with the expressiveness of higher-level languages. Its simplicity, flexibility, and power made it a popular choice for systems programming and the development of operating systems like Unix.
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