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Date:      Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:42:06 +0200
From:      Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Will the next one be D or P? (Was: vi)
Message-ID:  <3B276DAE.9567AE27@nisser.com>
References:  <15143.4018.394413.713952@guru.mired.org>

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Mike Meyer wrote:
> 
> ...
>
> C was a compiled variant of B which was an adaptation of BCPL.

Yeah, my memory failed me there. B/BCPL I've never touched anyway. Got
my first initiation with Algol '68. And some TTL/core based hardware
design <g>.

> > Hence it came known that God moves if not writes in mysterious ways ;).
> 
> Or at least Ritchie.

Wasn't one the adaptation of the other? My memory... bad... ;)

Roelof

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