Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:14:39 -0200 From: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?) Message-ID: <1289744079.21308.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <4cdfa533.KmbS7pHvQ3h%2BK92G%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <201011132032.oADKW4FG025920@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20101113220559.GE45921@guilt.hydra> <4cdfa533.KmbS7pHvQ3h%2BK92G%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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> > CPL never amounted to much -- I don't know whether it was ever > implemented at all -- but BCPL developed a following. Someone > (at Bell Labs?) produced a derivative called B, from which a few > researchers at Murray Hill derived C. Thus the question: should > the next language in the series be named D (next alphabetically) > or P (next letter of BCPL)? Wow!!! I had forgotten... I have done some projects using BCPL... in a mainframe (S370) running MVS in the 70's... it was lightning fast. we had made a kind of TSO (time sharing option) that runs on top of VTAM, to bring "online compile and run" cobol programs to the desktop... while a batch work responds in 3 hours, a TSO (written in bcpl) responds in seconds... Thanks for remember the "good old days" ... it is still active!!! =====> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/BCPL.html Sergio
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