Classic programming

[ben]

On 8/9/2015 1:21 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2015-08-08 15:14, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>>      > 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.
>
> And one should not forget Algol.
>
>      Johnny

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Ben.