On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Frode [ISO-8859-1] Tennebø 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. 
> 
> I was not aware that ABC was referred to as B. I was thinking of the 
> design of Thompson and Ritchie - now predated by C. I'm unsure about 
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I think you aren't a native speaker of English. You mean "B predates C". 
One could argue that B evolved directly into C. 

> > of course there
> > are lots of languages generated for the purposes of academic
> > research (e.g. getting a PhD thesis), that have gone away
> > (GYVE is one of the more interesting languages in this
> > category, Phil Shaw : NYU PhD, advisor Jack Schwartz, mid 70's)
> 
> If you are interested in obscure languages, you should take a look at 
> Erlang (www.erlang.org).

Erlang is hardly "obscure"; it is used at Ericsson and Bluetail/Alteon, 
amongst others. I'd say it is thriving. I still prefer languages with
static type systems though, though I understand why the Erlang designers 
went with dynamic types. 

-- Brian