On 8/9/2015 1:21 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
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

What year did you wish for?
Ben.

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