An anecdotic tour on the history of programming languages

C, a general purpose, procedural language was designed by Dennis Ritchie, one of the two Unix legends, at Bell Labs (which as of 2016 are a subsidiary of Nokia). It was named C because it was an improved B, a previous programming language, which was a simplified BCPL (hence its name). After they wrote C, they decided to re-write Unix to it. This venture was completed steadily and in parts. During the end of the decade, and in the next one (80s) versions of C were implemented for a wide variety of computers, including the IBM PC.