9 Aug
2015
9 Aug
'15
1:29 a.m.
On 8/9/2015 1:21 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2015-08-08 15:14, Noel Chiappa wrote:
And one should not forget Algol.
Johnny
What year did you wish for?
Ben.
From: Kip
Koon
I have often wondered what the inspiration for
the C Language
was. BCPL
-> MCPL -> B -> c, quite an interesting
list of languages.
I don't think MCPL is in there; B was directly inspired by BCPL. See
Dennis
M. Ritchie, "The Development of the C Language":
http://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
I got the impression from the previous discussion that MCPL was a later
branch.