2 Aug
2007
2 Aug
'07
12:16 p.m.
On 2 Aug 2007 at 11:57, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> Apropros of not much, but to ensure this is
on-topic, I never hear B or BCPL
> mentioned, the ancestors of C, and even 'closer to the machine'. I'm not
sure
> how many C programmers these days even know it has such ancestors.
I recall a conversation with a fellow at Xerox R&D on Coyote Hill
Road (not PARC) around 1983 or so. He remarked that much of the
Xerox document management code was in 'B' and not C.
Cheers,
Chuck