[adamzegelin]

> The "C" in C stands for compatible.

Source?

Wiki says:

> A successor to the programming language B, C was originally developed at Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie between 1972 and 1973 to construct utilities running on Unix.

> In 1972, Ritchie started to improve B, which resulted in creating a new language C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language

[hctaw]

It's a play on words