Re: Which programming Language

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/10/2009 10:21 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 02/10/2009 07:58 PM, owens@netptc.net wrote:
> > > > ---- Original Message ----
> > > > From: mark@allums.com
> > > > To: ron.l.johnson@cox.net
> > > > Subject: Re: Which programming  Language
> > > > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:32:26 -0600
> > [snip]
> > > > The Motorola 68000 series was allegedly designed partly with C in
> > > > mind.
> > > I was told this too.  However, having taught both M68000 Assembler
> > > and C I have my doubts.
> >
> > The legend was that C was influenced by PDP-11 assembler.  Don't know 
> > how true it is.
>
> C came from B which came from BCPL;  B and BCPL predate the PDP-11.

*Influenced by*.  Otherwise, they would have used B.

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