Reason programming language B was named "B"?
B was designed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, as a cut-down version of BCPL, the Basic Combined Programming Language. Ritchie&nbsp;[1] says,


  [B's] name most probably represents a contraction of BCPL, though an alternate theory holds that it derives from Bon, an unrelated language created by Thompson during the Multics days. Bon in turn was named either after his wife Bonnie, or (according to an encyclopedia quotation in its manual), after a religion whose rituals involve the murmuring of magic formulas.




[1]  Dennis Ritchie, The development of the C language. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 28 (3): 201–208, 1993.