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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


             reply	other threads:[~2016-03-09 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-09 21:34 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2016-03-09 21:43 ` John Cowan
2016-03-10 18:09   ` scj
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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