From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:34:51 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] Documentation on B language?
Message-ID: <201603092134.u29LYp9Q010455@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

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