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1.7 Language history

In 1978, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs (which used computers extensively for automatic phone call routing)
published a book describing a new high-level language with the simple name C, being named after another language called B (whose name
came from a language called BCPL). C became the dominant programming language in the 1980s and 1990s.
In 1985, Bjarne Stroustrup published a book describing a C-based language called C++, adding constructs to support a style of
programming known as object-oriented programming, along with other improvements. The unusual ++ part of the name comes from ++
being an operator in C that increases a number, so the name C++ suggests an increase or improvement over C.
Both C and C++ are popular Rrst languages for programming computers, widely used for desktop and embedded systems. Furthermore, C#
for Microsoft Windows programming and Objective-C for iPhone/iPad/Mac programming are C++ variants. Many newer languages like
Java have a strong C/C++ Zavor.
A June 2019 survey ranking languages by their popularity, based on programming related searches using popular search engines, yielded
the following:

Table 1.7.1: Top languages ranked by

popularity.

Language Percentage

Java 15%

C 13%

Python 9%

C++ 7%

Visual Basic .NET 5%

C# 4%

JavaScript 3%

PHP 3%

SQL 2%

Assembly language 1%

Swift 1%

(Source: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/, 2019)

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The C/C++/C# group accounts for 24% of all programming related searches.

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