23 Sep
2015
23 Sep
'15
9:09 a.m.
On 09/22/2015 08:49 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 09/22/2015 06:31 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
Yes, quite true, BUT it also makes recursion and pointers
easy to do. These are modern things that were really hard
in the original FORTRAN.
Jon
So, B was never actually a FORTRAN compiler, just
Ken
started
thinking about FORTRAN grammar and within one DAY took
off in a
different direction. By that time (1969 or so) FORTRAN
was a really
old language, and considered way out of date by most
universities'
Comp Sci departments.
Which is why C started out with a COMPLEX data type...NOT.
FORTRAN can run on a much wider variety of machines than
can C.
C was nothing more than a bare step up from assembly.