On 09/22/2015 08:49 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 09/22/2015 06:31 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
So, B was never actually a FORTRAN compiler, just Ken
started
thinking about FORTRAN grammar and within one DAY took
off in a
different direction. By that time (1969 or so) FORTRAN
was a really
old language, and considered way out of date by most
universities'
Comp Sci departments.
Which is why C started out with a COMPLEX data type...NOT.
FORTRAN can run on a much wider variety of machines than
can C.
C was nothing more than a bare step up from assembly.
Yes, quite true, BUT it also makes recursion and pointers
easy to do. These are modern things that were really hard
in the original FORTRAN.
Jon
