Re: Class Notes for a PL/I Course.

"Tony Harminc [email protected] [H390-MVS]" <[email protected]> Mon, 7 Oct 2019 21:59:08 -0400

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On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 at 08:25, Joe Monk [email protected] wrote:

>
> "C is, AFAIK, a direct offspring of BCPL; there were older languages
> called
> A and B. I don't really know BCPL, but from what I heard, BCPL is an
> advanced
> version of B, and, in contrast to C, it had no other types than int."
>
> Actually Bernd I think it is the other way around.
>
> B is an offshoot of BCPL. C is the stepchild of B.
>

Back in the 1970s we had a little joke/riddle about what the name of the
language to come after C should be. Of course before C there was B, so it
seemed reasonable that it should be D. But there was a school of thought
that said it should be P, because B and C are the first two letter of
BCPL... Needless to say, this was before C++.

Tony H.