22 Sep
2015
22 Sep
'15
5:22 p.m.
Reading the two referenced links leads me to a different conclusion:
FORTRAN would not do the job at all, so he started from scratch - almost
immediately.
"Anyway, it took him about a day to realize that he didn't want to do a
Fortran compiler at all. So he did this very simple language called B
and got it going on the PDP-7."
"After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he created instead a
language of his own"
(and "rapidly scuttled seems to have been a day).
So I don't agree with the assertion that "'C' started out as a Fortran
compiler". Not at all.
JRJ
On 9/22/2015 3:49 PM, Diane Bruce wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 04:35:24PM -0400, Paul Koning
wrote:
http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/expotape.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20030501014008/http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/…
On Sep 22, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Diane Bruce <db
at db.net> wrote:
Really? "citation needed". ...
> But back in the 60's, every manufacturer had its own variety of FORTRAN,
> including (IIRC), UNIVAC's own "FORTRAN V".
Ah, yes. I remember WatFor
And Unix was no different, 'C' started out as a Fortran compiler.
paul
Diane