A closer look
Dennis Ritchie developed the legendary C programming language at Bell Labs in 1972, and he named it 'C' for the incredibly unimaginative reason that it was directly based on an earlier programming language that was simply called 'B'. For an industry supposedly filled with the most brilliant and creative minds on the planet, early software engineers possessed an absolute zero capacity for interesting nomenclature, opting instead to just march linearly down the English alphabet. This foundational language went on to essentially build the entire modern computing world, serving as the core architecture for everything from major operating systems to the digital infrastructure of the global financial market. It is mildly terrifying that the complex digital matrix governing our entire modern society was built using a programming syntax named with the exact same level of creative effort a preschooler uses when learning their ABCs
