From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] Documentation on B language?
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 08:01:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201603081301.u28D1wGP104789@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
>> https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/kbman.html
>> https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/bintro.html
> Yup, there certainly were different versions of B.
Yes, kbman covers only one of the two implementations that
cohabited the PDP-11. The other was the same language, with
software paging, so it could have a larger data space.
Various aspects of the language were borrowed from PL/I,
BCPL and Algol 68. ++ and -- were novel operators. The
reversal of Algol's assignment operators (e.g. -=
became =-) was eventually repealed in C.
doug
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2016-03-08 13:01 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2016-03-08 18:00 ` John Cowan
2016-03-08 19:10 ` Andru Luvisi
2016-03-08 19:43 ` John Cowan
2016-03-08 23:13 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-03-09 11:09 ` Christian Neukirchen
2016-03-09 11:29 ` Brantley Coile
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2016-03-09 21:34 Doug McIlroy
2016-03-09 21:43 ` John Cowan
2016-03-10 18:09 ` scj
2016-03-09 12:34 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-07 0:57 Norman Wilson
2016-03-07 8:39 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2016-03-07 0:20 Warren Toomey
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