1 Oct
2014
1 Oct
'14
1:54 p.m.
On 2014-Oct-01, at 8:11 AM, Brian L. Stuart wrote:
I thought there already was a "P" and a "D" ...
IIRC in one of the HOPL papers, Dennis remarks something to the
effect that they left it intentionally ambiguous whether they where
stepping through the alphabet or through the initials of BCPL.
There was a Z. 1970/80s sibling of C.
Many seem to
trace their ancestry to BCPL, how does this relate to
Algol...
IIRC, BCPL was block-structured a la Algol. It was, of course, the direct
ancestor of B, which is the direct ancestor of C. We all know that the proper
successor to C will be named P.