Classic programming

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Sat Aug 8 08:14:57 CDT 2015


    > 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.

	Noel


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