On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Peter St. John wrote: > and Ken wrote B in the late 60's (to extend your "gleam in the eye" > metaphor beyond bearability, I'd say that Dennis carred the project to > term). Nice thing about B is that the formal definition fits in 2 pages.
B, I remember it well and with fondness. I was one of the folks who was
involved in hacking on AberMUD (and its predecessor BBS HoneyBoard) in B at
the University of Wales, Aberystwyth on their Honeywell L66 back in 87/88..
It had both the variable types you could ever need, namely auto and extern.
FYI.. (from the Users' Reference to B via Wikipedia):
/* The following function will print a non-negative number, n, to
the base b, where 2<=b<=10, This routine uses the fact that
in the ASCII character set, the digits 0 to 9 have sequential
code values. */
printn(n,b) {
extrn putchar;
auto a;
if(a=n/b) /* assignment, not test for equality */
printn(a, b); /* recursive */
putchar(n%b + '0');
}
Takes me right back..
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