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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Late Bloomers Revisited
Message-ID: <2858@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 89 20:15:06 GMT
References: <1TmbNv#4mK14j=eric@snark.uu.net>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <1TmbNv#4mK14j=eric@snark.uu.net> eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
 | A couple of well-informed comp.arch regulars have suggested that I may
 | have been a bit too peremptory in dismissing Algol68's influence on later
 | language development. I will still argue vigorously that the Pascal family
 | was founded on Algol-60 (consider the relative dates) but I admit that 
 | there's a case for tracing C casts and some aspects of its type system
 | to Algol68.
 | 

I think you will find that C was derived from B (Bell?), which in turn
owes a lot to CPL and BCPL from Cambridge.

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