C history / was Re: newbie building a scratch-built computer

[Ethan Dicks]

On 8/2/07, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
> On 2 Aug 2007 at 11:57, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> > > Apropros of not much, but to ensure this is on-topic, I never hear B or BCPL
> > > mentioned, the ancestors of C, and even 'closer to the machine'. I'm not sure
> > > how many C programmers these days even know it has such ancestors.

FWIW, that's not my quote.  Checking back on this thread, I responded
to that from Brent Hilpert, as far as I can tell.

> I recall a conversation with a fellow at Xerox R&D on Coyote Hill
> Road (not PARC) around 1983 or so.  He remarked that much of the
> Xerox document management code was in 'B' and not C.

Interesting.  I know little about the details of Xerox products, so
little tidbits like that are illuminating to me.

-ethan