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

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: Thu Jun 24 09:21:31 2004

>>>>> "Huw" == Huw Davies <huw.davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au> writes:

 Huw> .... I did all (well
 Huw> really most) of my BCPL programming on a DECsystem-10 where
 Huw> bytes had a completely different interpretation to the commonly
 Huw> accepted IBMism.

Then again, it's possible to implement C on a PDP10 -- there's a GCC
port for it, even...

     paul
Received on Thu Jun 24 2004 - 09:21:31 BST