I don't know B; I do know and admire BCPL, and C resembles it only to the extent that a butterfly resembles a tree. BCPL is not entirely type-free; it is very weakly typed indeed; and C is strongly, even intrusively, typed.
John Gilmore On 5/17/13, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote: >>C: the only language that is self grading > > ERROR! ERROR! Statement inaccurate! > > C's predecessor was B derived from BCPL (Basic Computer Programming > Language). > > I used all three in University in the 1970's. > > Also, two experimental languages in the Waterloo Portability Lab (Eh and Z - > pronounced Zed [in Canada, after all). > - > Ted MacNEIL > [email protected] > Twitter: @TedMacNEIL > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
