2 Aug
2007
2 Aug
'07
12:49 p.m.
On 8/2/07, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 2 Aug 2007 at 11:57, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > Apropros of not much, but to ensure this is on-topic, I never hear B or BCPL
> > mentioned, the ancestors of C, and even 'closer to the machine'.
I'm not sure
> > how many C programmers these days even know it has such ancestors.
FWIW, that's not my quote. Checking back on this thread, I responded
to that from Brent Hilpert, as far as I can tell.
I recall a conversation with a fellow at Xerox R&D
on Coyote Hill
Road (not PARC) around 1983 or so. He remarked that much of the
Xerox document management code was in 'B' and not C.
Interesting. I know little about the details of Xerox products, so
little tidbits like that are illuminating to me.
-ethan