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From: rmb384@leah.Albany.Edu ( Robert Bownes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The history of C (was Re: C critisisms)
Summary: Origins of BCPL according to K & R
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Date: 20 Jan 88 06:14:19 GMT
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	According to D.M. Richie, S.C. Johnson, M.E. Lesk, and
B.W. Kernighan's paper entitled _The C Programming Language_
published in the _Bell System Technical Journal_ pg 1991,

"Many of the most important ideas stem from the considerably older,
but still quite vital, language BCPL[2] developed by Martin Richards.
The influence of BCPL on C proceeded indirectly through the language B[3],
which was written by Ken Thompson in 1970 for the first UNIX system on the 
PDP-11"

	I think this pretty much says it all.

[2]M. Richards, "BCPL: A Tool for Compiler Writing and Systems Programming",
	Proc AFIPS SJCC, 34 (1969), pp 557-566
[3] S.C. Johnson & B. W. Kernighan, "The programming Language B",
	Comp Sci Tech Rep No. 8, Bell Labs (jan 1973)


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