Rich kids are into COBOL

[Chuck Guzis]

On 02/27/2015 11:52 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
>> 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.

Well, as much as I hate using WikiP as a reference, there is this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29#History

--Chuck