On 8/9/2015 1:21 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
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
What year did you wish for? Ben.
