28 Feb
2015
28 Feb
'15
3:02 a.m.
On 2015-02-28 00:19, Dave G4UGM wrote:
And here I was sitting, thinking they all originated with Algol...
Johnny
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-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Eric Smith
Sent: 27 February 2015 19:53
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Rich kids are into COBOL
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Its history is deeper than that. Its part of a family of bracketed languages that started
with BCPL which became "B" and then "C". BCPL was written for the
IBM7090. It seems to me to be very strange that today
we're coding in a
language that was developed for a PDP-11 minicomputer.
Developed for the PDP-7, actually. Contrary to popular belief, the "++" and
"--" operators were NOT the result of the PDP-11 addressing modes.