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Article #6534Re: Late Bloomers Revisited
From: L.J.Dickey
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1989 20:15
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1989 20:15
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In article <1TmbNv#4mK14j=eric@snark.uu.net> eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
| A couple of well-informed comp.arch regulars have suggested that I may
| have been a bit too peremptory in dismissing Algol68's influence on later
| language development. I will still argue vigorously that the Pascal family
| was founded on Algol-60 (consider the relative dates) but I admit that
| there's a case for tracing C casts and some aspects of its type system
| to Algol68.
|
I think you will find that C was derived from B (Bell?), which in turn
owes a lot to CPL and BCPL from Cambridge.
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L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
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