On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote: > It seems to me to be very strange that today we're coding in a language that > was developed for a PDP-11 minicomputer. Developed for the PDP-7, actually. Contrary to popular belief, the "++" and "--" operators were NOT the result of the PDP-11 addressing modes.