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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: [TUHS] Re: mental architecture models, Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?
Date: Sun,  7 Jul 2024 09:57:32 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240707135732.8928518C089@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > From: Steve Jenkin

    > C wasn't the first standardised coding language, FORTRAN & COBOL at
    > least were before it

There were a ton; Algol-60 is the most imppotant one I can think of.

(I was thinking that Algol-60 was probably an important precursor to BCPL,
which was the predecessor to C, but Richards' first BCPL paper:

  https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1476793.1476880

"BCPL: A tool for compiler writing and system programming" doesn't call it
out, only CPL. However, CPL does admit its dues to Algol-60: "CPL is to a
large extent based on ALGOL 60".)

	Noel

             reply	other threads:[~2024-07-07 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-07 13:57 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2024-07-07 16:43 ` John Levine
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-07-10  2:20 Douglas McIlroy
2024-07-05  7:36 [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2024-07-05 10:18 ` Peter Yardley
2024-07-05 21:38   ` [TUHS] Re: mental architecture models, " John Levine
2024-07-05 21:49     ` Larry McVoy
2024-07-05 22:08       ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2024-07-05 22:24         ` Larry McVoy
2024-07-05 23:17       ` John Levine
2024-07-06 12:52         ` sjenkin
2024-07-06 14:02           ` John R Levine
2024-07-06 15:58           ` Clem Cole
2024-07-06 20:56             ` John R Levine
2024-07-06 21:32               ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2024-07-06 23:46                 ` Peter Yardley
2024-07-07 17:43                   ` James Frew
2024-07-07  1:39                 ` John Levine
2024-07-08 21:39                 ` Aron Insinga
2024-07-08 22:14                   ` Paul Winalski
2024-07-09  1:04                     ` Aron Insinga
2024-07-08 22:17                   ` Rik Farrow
2024-07-09  0:08                     ` Adam Thornton
2024-07-09  2:40                       ` Dave Horsfall
2024-07-09  2:43                         ` Warner Losh
2024-07-09  4:23                         ` Adam Thornton
2024-07-09  5:06                         ` Aron Insinga
2024-07-07  5:33         ` arnold
2024-07-05 22:10     ` Dan Cross

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