On 2015-08-08 15:14, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> From: Kip Koon
> I have often wondered what the inspiration for the C Language was. BCPL
> -> MCPL -> B -> c, quite an interesting list of languages.
I don't think MCPL is in there; B was directly inspired by BCPL. See Dennis
M. Ritchie, "The Development of the C Language":
http://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
I got the impression from the previous discussion that MCPL was a later
branch.
And one should not forget Algol.
Johnny
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