Re: gEDA-dev: New diagram (attempt at UML)

[Steve Meier <smeier-at-NOSPAMalchemyresearch_dot_com>]

>From "The C Programming Language" Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M.
Ritchie, Chapter 0, Page 2 published 1978 Bell Telephone Laboritories,
Incorporated

"Manny of the most Important ideas of C stem from the considerably
older, but still quite vital, language BCPL, developed by Martin
Richards. The influence of BCPL on C proceeded indirectly through B,
which was written by Ken Thompson in 1970 for the first UNIX system on
the PDP-7"

I read that as B is the language that proceeded C but that many of the
important ideas came from the earlier language BCPL.

If I am miss-informed at least I get my miss-information from a
reputable source.

Steve meier


DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Some of us old reactionaries think it was a mistake to make the move
>> away from B.
>>     
>
> The predecessor to C was BCPL, not B (which preceeded BCPL).
>
> OTOH, my furnace project has 1,735 lines of assembler so far, not even
> B.
>
> My biggest assembler project was a graphical terminal emulator.  The
> final executable was 64k - it just fit into a ROM - of 100% hand-coded
> assembler.
>
> Hey, you hear about the new object oriented COBOL?  It's called
> ADD_ONE_TO_COBOL.
>
> Then again, I thought it strange when Borland came out with its Object
> Oriented Assembler.
>
> So much for the one-liners file.
>
>
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