Ken Thompson made B, Dennis Ritchie turned it into C, and in 1973 they rewrote UNIX in it. Today C runs almost everything.
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Photo credits: Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie — public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (The Jargon File); Brian Kernighan — via Wikimedia Commons. All other illustrations are original artwork made for this video.
Sources: Dennis M. Ritchie, “The Development of the C Language” (1993); Kernighan & Ritchie, The C Programming Language (1978); ACM Turing Award 1983; ISO/IEC 9899:2024.
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