On 29-Jan-18 17:45, Dave Wade wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Bob >> Eager >> Sent: 29 January 2018 22:08 >> To: simh@trailing-edge.com >> Subject: Re: [Simh] BLISS and C >> >> On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:05:01 -0500 >> Clem Cole <cl...@ccc.com> wrote: >> >>> One can argue, why did Ken not just build something more like BCPL >>> instead of B? I can not say, maybe the brevity of { } from PL/1 was >>> more attractive than the Algol BEGIN/END style? >> BCPL was, in any case, using $( $) and (later) { }. It never used BEGIN/END. >> > The "B" compiler I used on the Honeywell L6000/L66 used { }. > >> And the major drawback of BCPL (which I love) was that it was word >> oriented. Most machine architectures were not (OK, PDP-10...) One had to >> use contortions, and a special % operator, to access bytes efficiently. >> > "B" is similar, characters were accessed by functions rather than a special > operator, but you can, I think use a combination of shifts and logical > operators.... > ... those familiar with BCPL or C who have not encountered B may find the > manual here interesting... > > https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/bref.html > > it would be nice to find a working compiler for a word based machine...
I seem to remember that there was a BCPL for TOPS-10 in the DECUS library.
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