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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID,
	PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII
X-Google-Thread: 103376,984e922902f4f4ee
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Can Ada by popularized faster ?
Date: 1997/10/31
Message-ID: <63c1h6$l9g$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 286539020
References: <3446D9AB.3A14@erols.com> <3451A98F.B3DFF971@sd.aonix.com>
 <3451FB80.CA0179F1@montana.campus.mci.net>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
NNTP-Posting-User: ok
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1997-10-31T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


Larry Elmore <ljelmore@montana.campus.mci.net> writes:

>As I recall, the kernel was written in BCPL, which was a cousin of C, I
>think (both derived from B?).

Back to front.
CPL begat BCPL which begat B which begat C which begat the Gorgons.

-- 
John �neas Byron O'Keefe; 1921/02/04-1997/09/27; TLG,TLTA,BBTNOTL.
Richard A. O'Keefe; RMIT Comp.Sci; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok