From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 08:01:58 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] Documentation on B language?
Message-ID: <201603081301.u28D1wGP104789@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

>> 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became =-) was eventually repealed in C.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
e