From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] Documentation on B language?
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:34:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201603092134.u29LYp9Q010455@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
According to Ken, the inspiration for ++ and -- came
from the PDP-7 hardware, not from previous languages.
The PDP-7 supported only ++i, where i had to be one
of only a few memory addresses. "For symmetry", Ken
says, he put all four operations in B. (And he did
not use the hardware autoincrement.)
Doug
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2016-03-09 21:34 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2016-03-09 21:43 ` John Cowan
2016-03-10 18:09 ` scj
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2016-03-09 12:34 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-08 13:01 Doug McIlroy
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
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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