B (programming language)

B - procedural programming language. This programming language is the 82^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 79^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “B (programming language)” in English Wikipedia has 32.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 25 references and 5 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “B (programming language)” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “B (programming language)”, its content was written by 147 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 606 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

B is on the 79^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 82^nd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 88 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1322 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1475 in June 2002
• Global: #2169 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #28515 in July 2013
• Global: #40046 in October 2011

There are 30 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) B (programming language)		32.1913
2	Hungarian (hu) B (programozási nyelv)		31.6689
3	Vietnamese (vi) B (ngôn ngữ lập trình)		25.4313
4	Finnish (fi) B (ohjelmointikieli)		25.1569
5	Tamil (ta) பி (நிரலாக்க மொழி)		23.9663
6	Ukrainian (uk) B (мова програмування)		23.2701
7	Arabic (ar) بي (لغة برمجة)		21.4834
8	Japanese (ja) B言語		17.8738
9	Portuguese (pt) B (linguagem de programação)		16.7966
10	Slovenian (sl) Programski jezik B		15.8768

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "B (programming language)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) B (programming language)		2 329 133
2	Spanish (es) B (lenguaje de programación)		318 105
3	Russian (ru) Би (язык программирования)		232 490
4	German (de) B (Programmiersprache)		191 806
5	Portuguese (pt) B (linguagem de programação)		185 430
6	Japanese (ja) B言語		184 409
7	French (fr) B (langage)		162 570
8	Polish (pl) B (język programowania)		105 472
9	Chinese (zh) B語言		99 259
10	Italian (it) B (linguaggio di programmazione)		53 957

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "B (programming language)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) B (programming language)		14 160
2	Russian (ru) Би (язык программирования)		1 445
3	Spanish (es) B (lenguaje de programación)		725
4	Japanese (ja) B言語		564
5	German (de) B (Programmiersprache)		470
6	French (fr) B (langage)		442
7	Portuguese (pt) B (linguagem de programação)		388
8	Chinese (zh) B語言		331
9	Italian (it) B (linguaggio di programmazione)		206
10	Polish (pl) B (język programowania)		184

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "B (programming language)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) B (programming language)		147
2	German (de) B (Programmiersprache)		53
3	French (fr) B (langage)		48
4	Italian (it) B (linguaggio di programmazione)		44
5	Spanish (es) B (lenguaje de programación)		30
6	Dutch (nl) B (programmeertaal)		29
7	Russian (ru) Би (язык программирования)		27
8	Japanese (ja) B言語		26
9	Portuguese (pt) B (linguagem de programação)		22
10	Chinese (zh) B語言		20

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "B (programming language)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) B (programming language)		1
2	Galician (gl) Linguaxe de programación B		1
3	Arabic (ar) بي (لغة برمجة)		0
4	Catalan (ca) Llenguatge B		0
5	Czech (cs) B (programovací jazyk)		0
6	German (de) B (Programmiersprache)		0
7	Spanish (es) B (lenguaje de programación)		0
8	Persian (fa) بی (زبان برنامه‌نویسی)		0
9	Finnish (fi) B (ohjelmointikieli)		0
10	French (fr) B (langage)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "B (programming language)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Ukrainian (uk) B (мова програмування)		180
2	Polish (pl) B (język programowania)		174
3	Norwegian (no) B (programmeringsspråk)		160
4	Czech (cs) B (programovací jazyk)		122
5	Japanese (ja) B言語		103
6	English (en) B (programming language)		88
7	Dutch (nl) B (programmeertaal)		88
8	Galician (gl) Linguaxe de programación B		62
9	Slovenian (sl) Programski jezik B		30
10	Chinese (zh) B語言		29

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic بي (لغة برمجة)
ca	Catalan Llenguatge B
cs	Czech B (programovací jazyk)
de	German B (Programmiersprache)
en	English B (programming language)
es	Spanish B (lenguaje de programación)
fa	Persian بی (زبان برنامه‌نویسی)
fi	Finnish B (ohjelmointikieli)
fr	French B (langage)
gl	Galician Linguaxe de programación B
he	Hebrew B (שפת תכנות)
hu	Hungarian B (programozási nyelv)
hy	Armenian B (ծրագրավորման լեզու)
id	Indonesian B (bahasa pemrograman)
it	Italian B (linguaggio di programmazione)
ja	Japanese B言語
ko	Korean B (프로그래밍 언어)
ms	Malay Bahasa pengaturcaraan B
nl	Dutch B (programmeertaal)
no	Norwegian B (programmeringsspråk)
pl	Polish B (język programowania)
pt	Portuguese B (linguagem de programação)
ru	Russian Би (язык программирования)
sl	Slovenian Programski jezik B
sv	Swedish B (programspråk)
ta	Tamil பி (நிரலாக்க மொழி)
tr	Turkish B (programlama dili)
uk	Ukrainian B (мова програмування)
vi	Vietnamese B (ngôn ngữ lập trình)
zh	Chinese B語言

Best Rank

English: #28515 07.2013

Global: #40046 10.2011

Best Rank

English: #1475 06.2002

Global: #2169 06.2002

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