30 May
2020
30 May
'20
1:19 p.m.
On Fri, 29 May 2020, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Bill Gunshannon
On 5/29/20 5:24 PM, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote:
>
> At the risk of fanning the language fire, C seems to be a smaller step
> up from native machine language than most other languages. It's like
> 80% of the portability with 20% of the effort of writing directly in ASM.
Well I remember when first being introduced to "B" on the Honeywell L66
under GCOS thinking that it allowed programmers to shoot themselves in
the foot in the same ways as they could with assembler, but much more
rapidly. "B" was near assembler than "C"
only having the "Machine Word" as a
type.
And before B was BCPL.
BCPL was used to Bootstrap B was used to Bootstrap C.
BCPL equally rapidly lets you shoot yourself in the foot.. It's fun
though. I'm in the middle of creating a lttle retro project and I'm using
BCPL as its "self-hosting" programming language.
Gordon