Classic programming

[Johnny Billquist]

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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