Structured Fortran - was Re: Self modifying code, lambda calculus

[Jay Jaeger]

Reading the two referenced links leads me to a different conclusion:
FORTRAN would not do the job at all, so he started from scratch - almost
immediately.

"Anyway, it took him about a day to realize that he didn't want to do a
Fortran compiler at all. So he did this very simple language called B
and got it going on the PDP-7."

"After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he created instead a
language of his own"

(and "rapidly scuttled seems to have been a day).

So I don't agree with the assertion that "'C' started out as a Fortran
compiler".  Not at all.

JRJ

On 9/22/2015 3:49 PM, Diane Bruce wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 04:35:24PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
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>>> On Sep 22, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Diane Bruce <db at db.net> wrote:
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>>>> ...
>>>>> But back in the 60's, every manufacturer had its own variety of FORTRAN, 
>>>>> including (IIRC), UNIVAC's own "FORTRAN V".
>>>> Ah, yes.  I remember WatFor
>>>
>>> And Unix was no different, 'C' started out as a Fortran compiler.
>>
>> Really?  "citation needed".
> 
> http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/expotape.htm
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> https://web.archive.org/web/20030501014008/http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/chist.html
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> 
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>> 	paul
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> Diane
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