Ken Thompson developed B (from BCPL ).

Dennis Ritchie developed C from B.

Together, Ritchie and Thompson rewrote UNIX in C in 1973.

C combines aspects of high and low level programming.

C is structured, but still enables bit-manipulation -- required for systems-level programming.

C++ is a superset of C.

GNU's C compiler is named gcc.

GNU's C++ compiler is named g++.

The default UNIX C compiler is named cc.