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.

Also, this from DR:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/chist.html

While there was B for the PDP-7, was there ever a C for it?

--Chuck