Re: Which programming Language
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:29:09 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/10/2009 07:58 PM, owens@netptc.net wrote:
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>>>
>>> ---- 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.
Probably very true. As far as I know, the first implementation of C was
on the PDP-11. I used it in the 70's, when it was still fresh. It felt
like I was programming a PDP-11 but didn't have to worry (much) about
register allocation. All the usual operations were there. Even a
restriction that if an expression was too complex to be evaluated in the
available machine registers, the compiler would reject it.
-- hendrik
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