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In 1971 Dennis
Ritchie at Bell Labs extended the B language (by adding types) into what he
called NB, for "New B". Ritchie credits some of his changes to
language constructs found in Algol68, although he states "although it
[the type scheme], perhaps, did not emerge in a form that Algol's adherents
would approve of" After restructuring the language and rewriting the
compiler for B, Ritchie gave his new language a name: "C".
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