From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ad988eb0a9545c86 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-12 13:03:31 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.skycache.com!Cidera!netnews.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: Lao Xiao Hai Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Problem trying to implement generics. Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 12:16:05 -0700 Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering Message-ID: <3AFD8BF5.550725FA@ix.netcom.com> References: <9b46dr$cd8$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <9b6jtu$4is$2@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <9b6m27$68e$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <0JBB6.10484$FD1.1197250@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> <9b7tce$laf$2@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <3ADC4320.7ACA3DEC@averstar.com> <9bhoup$h9k$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <3ADC7A79.8E853905@mindspring.com> <9bi4g4$97m$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3AF786B8.7DE1215B@ix.netcom.com> <3AFBB45E.D74A9578@brighton.ac.uk> Reply-To: richard@adaworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 3f.35.b8.e5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 12 May 2001 19:16:19 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7430 Date: 2001-05-12T19:16:19+00:00 List-Id: John English wrote: > Lao Xiao Hai wrote: > > If my memory has not failed me, I seem to > > recall that the +=, ++, and certain other shorthand constructs originate on > > the platform for which C was originally designed, the PDP-11. > > A common myth, but in fact C was originally developed on the PDP-7. > See http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/pcinfo/history/lucent/chist.htm > for the full story. Thanks John. I knew it was one of the PDP- series. The first one I got to work on was the PDP-8, a rather interesting and strange machine with a twelve-bit word. The only available language at that time was Assembler. Maybe we would have been happy to have C. Richard Riehle