Unlikely. 'B' was a BCPL derivative which predated 'C' at Bell Labs. BCPL was used at PARC as the basic high level language for the Alto. During this same time period, a strongly typed language called Mesa was developed, which was used on the Alto, and later on the machines which evolved into the Xerox Star. Variations of Mesa were the primary Xerox development languages up through Globalview, which caused Xerox huge problems with hiring programmers, since no one outside of this world had any experience with the language. They eventually developed a Mesa to C translator called Memosa.