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From: stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re:  History lesson
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Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 18:07:22 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 22 18:07:22 1987
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In article <10463@brl-adm.ARPA> mchinni@ARDEC.arpa writes:
>   I quote from "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan & Ritchie: 
>"... The 
>influence of BCPL on C proceeded indirectly through the language B, which
>was written by Ken Thompson in 1970 for the first UNIX system on the PDP-7."

B had a long and noble life that spread far beyond the PDP-7.  For
years, the U. Waterloo used B to write a steady stream of programs
that augmented and vastly improved the command set on Honeywell
mainframes under GECOS.  (Maybe they even still do?)

Any old listing that looks exactly like C but somehow isn't quite
right is probably B.
--
Dick St.Peters                        
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters@ge-crd.arpa              
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