B - Programming language

B is a programming language created in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.

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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 was derived from BCPL, and its name may be a contraction of BCPL. Read more on Wikipedia...

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B first developed in Bell Labs
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See also: (9 related languages)ABC, BCPL, PL/I, C, Multics, ALGOL 58, Unix, TMG, Yacc
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Example from hello-world:

main() {
    putchar ('Hell'); putchar ('o Wo'); putchar ('rld'); putchar ('*n');
}

Example from Wikipedia:

/* The following function will print a non-negative number, n, to
   the base b, where 2<=b<=10.  This routine uses the fact that
   in the ASCII character set, the digits 0 to 9 have sequential
   code values.  */

printn(n, b) {
        extrn putchar;
        auto a;

        if (a = n / b)        /* assignment, not test for equality */
                printn(a, b); /* recursive */
        putchar(n % b + '0');
}

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Comments	✓		/* A comment */
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* */	/* A comment */
Print() Debugging	✓	putchar
Semantic Indentation	X

title	authors	year	citations	influentialCitations
Using B as a High Level Programming Language in an Industrial Project: Roissy VAL	Frédéric Badeau and Arnaud Amelot	2005	120	6
New approach to pharmacophore mapping and QSAR analysis using inductive logic programming. Application to thermolysin inhibitors and glycogen phosphorylase B inhibitors.	N. Marchand-Geneste and K. Watson and B. Alsberg and R. King	2002	49	6
An overview of the B programming language or B without tears	L. Geurts	1982	8	0

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B - Programming language

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