Re: Extremely CISC instructions- C compilers.

[Will Cooke via cctalk]

> On 08/25/2021 2:23 PM Van Snyder via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 

> 
> The C language appears to have been designed as a high-level assembler
> for machines like the PDP-11, which first appeared ca 1970. At least
> that's what the Wikipedioa article about the B language appears to say.


Dennis Richie's "History of C" explains why much of that can't possibly be true:
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

Will


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