Origins of C (was: "Nobody programs in machine language" (was: Modern

From: Huw Davies <huw.davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Thu Jun 24 08:37:10 2004

On 24 Jun 2004, at 10:17, Fred Cisin wrote:
>
> There was a predecessor to C, that was mostly theoretical,
> and rarely implemented named BCPL. The confusion over whether
> the sequence was A B C D v B C P L led to:

Well BCPL was so theoretical that it was used to implement Tripos and
some
multitasking operating system for the Amiga (which was the major reason
that
I purchased my A2000 in preference to a Mac).

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