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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9ab76c2183ecc054 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-03 17:22:02 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!204.71.34.15!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada to C Translator Message-ID: <63oi+WrfiL8n@eisner.decus.org> References: <92fk1v0cou@drn.newsguy.com> <92fqlt$h8d$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A4CF58B.A8FF223C@collins.rockwell.com> <92qfj7$7l9$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A50F03D.3D56E9E2@ix.netcom.com> <92r4jg$nii$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7kht29.gc2.ln@leia> <92vqe7$f7a$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <779039.j35.ln@leia> Organization: LJK Software Date: 3 Jan 2001 20:16:55 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 978571017 216.44.122.34 (Thu, 04 Jan 2001 01:16:57 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 01:16:57 GMT Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3638 Date: 2001-01-03T20:16:55-05:00 List-Id: In article , Brian Rogoff writes: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Frode [ISO-8859-1] Tenneb=F8 wrote: >> Robert Dewar wrote: >> > There is more than one language that has been called B (e.g. >> > ABC is one such language), but I don't know of any that once >> > had an established compiler technology and real commercial use >> > that have gone away. Please give more details.=20 >>=20 >> I was not aware that ABC was referred to as B. I was thinking of the=20 >> design of Thompson and Ritchie - now predated by C. I'm unsure about=20 > ^^^^^^^^ > > I think you aren't a native speaker of English. You mean "B predates C".=20 > One could argue that B evolved directly into C.=20 I thought the predecessor to C was called BCPL.