In 1969, Martin Richards took many of the concepts from CPL and produced a more efficient language called Basic CPL or BCPL to aid in writing compilers.

Then in 1970, while working on the operating system UNIX for AT&T labs, Ken Thompson decided to write a high-level language so the operating system didn't have to be rewritten in assembly for a new computer that had been purchased. This language was heavily influenced by BCPL and by Thompson's taste for spartan syntax, and was called "B". It was used

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Today, the majority of new programs are written in C++, especially by large companies. The only other languages which experience popularity comparable to C++ are C, which is still used by anyone who started programming before C++ was developed, Visual Basic, used to generate easy user-interfaces for custom database applications, Java, which is used for platform-independent application, Perl, which is a sort-of quick-and-dirty glue language used by system administrators, and the legacy FORTRAN and COBOL programs written thirty or more years ago which are still being maintained by pockets of programmers to

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