From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Documentation on B language?
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 13:00:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160308180019.GD32247@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201603081301.u28D1wGP104789@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
Doug McIlroy scripsit:
> 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 operators (e.g. -= became =-) was eventually repealed in C.
Algol 68, like Algol 60 and Pascal, used := (pronounced "becomes") for
assignment, and the Algol 68 assignment operators were spelled :+=,
:-=, etc. (pronounced "plus and becomes", "minus and becomes", etc.)
Pre-increment operators were already known in Lisp 1.5 long before;
they are now spelled incf and decf in Common Lisp.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing
on my shoulders. --Hal Abelson
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-08 13:01 Doug McIlroy
2016-03-08 18:00 ` John Cowan [this message]
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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