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Language Year started Created by (at) Comments C 1969-1973
Dennis Ritchie (Bell Labs) Was an enhancement of Ken Thompson's
B language. Ratfor 1974 Brian Kernighan (Bell Labs) A hybrid of
C and Fortran, implemented as a preprocessor for environments
without easy access to C compilers. C shell/tcsh late 1970s Bill
Joy (UC Berkeley) Scripting language and standard Unix shell.
C++ 1979 Bjarne Stroustrup (Bell Labs) Named as "C with Classes"
and renamed C++ in 1983; it began as a reimplementation of
static object orientation in the tradition of Simula 67, and
through standardization and wide use has grown to encompass
generic programming as well as its original object-oriented
roots. AMPL 1985 Robert Fourer, David Gay and Brian Kernighan
(Bell Labs) It is an algebraic modeling language with elements
of a scripting language.