Re: Hi All

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting sena (sena@decoy.ath.cx):

> Ken Thompson invented B in 1970. He did it for the first UNIX system, running
> on the DEC PDP-7. It was an experimental language.
> 
> B was inspired on BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language), by Martin
> Richards. BCPL was a simplification of CPL (Cambridge Programming Language).

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That should still be "Combined". CPL was jointly developed by
Cambridge and London Universities.

Cheers,

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