From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Ada to C Translator
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 02:41:08 GMT
Date: 2001-01-04T02:41:08+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101031834560.23793-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63oi+WrfiL8n@eisner.decus.org>
On 3 Jan 2001, Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> In article <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101031549200.12612-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>, Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> 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.
Logically true, but the *immediate* predecessor to C was B, which was
derived from BCPL. Don't take my word for it though,
http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/
has a link to this paper
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
I quote Dennis M. Ritchie
" For the sake of brevity, I omit full descriptions of C itself, its
parent B [Johnson 73] and its grandparent BCPL [Richards 79]..."
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-28 14:51 Ada to C Translator Mike K
2000-12-28 16:44 ` Ted Dennison
2000-12-28 17:40 ` Ira D. Baxter
2000-12-28 20:11 ` gdemont
2000-12-29 4:21 ` Dr Adrian Wrigley
2000-12-29 8:08 ` gdemont
2000-12-29 20:35 ` Dave Ptacek
2000-12-29 21:31 ` Marin David Condic
2000-12-30 23:04 ` Frode Tennebø
2000-12-30 23:31 ` Ted Dennison
2001-01-01 10:17 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-01-01 15:17 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-01-01 17:43 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-01 21:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2001-01-01 23:38 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-02 14:54 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-01 21:01 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-01-01 23:41 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-02 21:36 ` Frode Tennebø
2001-01-03 18:18 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-03 22:31 ` Frode Tennebø
2001-01-04 0:01 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-04 1:16 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-01-04 2:41 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
2001-01-03 23:57 ` Ken Garlington
2001-01-06 20:48 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-01-01 22:57 ` Frode Tennebø
2001-01-01 23:49 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-02 21:39 ` Frode Tennebø
2001-01-03 18:22 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-03 18:48 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-01-03 19:25 ` Ted Dennison
2001-01-03 22:10 ` Frode Tennebø
2001-01-01 23:04 ` Frode Tennebø
2001-01-02 22:20 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2001-01-02 18:07 ` Dave Ptacek
2001-01-02 22:45 ` Ted Dennison
2001-01-02 22:54 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2001-01-02 23:43 ` Ted Dennison
2001-01-02 22:57 ` Frode Tennebø
2001-01-03 12:34 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-03 14:00 ` Ken Garlington
2001-01-03 16:16 ` Marin David Condic
2000-12-28 18:53 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-12-28 20:41 ` tmoran
2000-12-29 12:01 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-01-02 21:58 ` Tucker Taft
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2006-01-24 19:55 Ada to C++ translator zangnew
2006-01-24 22:39 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-01-24 23:26 ` David Emery
2006-01-25 4:53 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-01-24 23:25 ` Gautier Write-only
2006-01-25 1:15 ` REH
2006-01-25 16:44 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-25 20:42 ` REH
2006-01-26 9:03 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-01-25 3:42 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2006-01-25 20:01 ` Florian Weimer
2006-01-25 20:36 ` Martin Dowie
2006-01-25 21:08 ` Florian Weimer
2006-01-25 21:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-01-26 11:22 ` Florian Weimer
2006-01-26 17:25 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-26 18:08 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2006-01-26 18:29 ` REH
2006-01-27 19:13 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-26 18:42 ` Florian Weimer
2006-01-27 0:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-01-26 1:18 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2006-01-26 18:51 ` Florian Weimer
2006-01-26 17:15 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-26 18:45 ` Florian Weimer
2006-01-25 9:24 ` Pascal Obry
2006-01-25 22:24 ` Gautier Write-only
2006-01-25 23:19 ` REH
2006-01-26 9:17 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-01-25 22:30 ` James Alan Farrell
2006-01-27 15:01 ` Charlie McCutcheon
2006-01-29 14:02 ` Marco
2006-01-29 15:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-01-29 15:43 ` jimmaureenrogers
2006-01-30 5:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-04-12 0:00 Ada to C++ Translator Brad Crabtree
2000-04-12 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-07-05 0:00 Ada To c translator wisniew
1997-07-06 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
[not found] <dewar.855063471@merv>
[not found] ` <5d7h2e$q4l$1@news.nyu.edu>
[not found] ` <5d90qq$ka7@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
1997-02-16 0:00 ` Ada to C translator Richard Kenner
1997-02-17 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-02-26 0:00 ` AlinP
1997-02-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-21 0:00 ` Keith Allan Shillington
1997-03-26 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-03-26 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] <199702041504.PAA11572@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us>
1997-02-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-21 0:00 Gabriel Rouzaut
1997-01-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-01-24 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1997-01-30 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
[not found] ` <5d29nv$sqv@mn5.swip.net>
[not found] ` <dewar.854940250@merv>
[not found] ` <5ddp0u$elq@mn5.swip.net>
1997-02-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-07 0:00 David Buscaglia
1996-08-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-11 0:00 ADA to C++ translator Alain PUJOL
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Darren C Davenport
1996-07-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Vukicevic
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Simon A Watts
1996-07-15 0:00 ` David Wheeler
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Simon A Watts
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Darren C Davenport
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Kevin J. Weise
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Simon A Watts
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Richard Krehbiel
[not found] <3f10sf$9t1@news.dtc.hp.com>
[not found] ` <3f1kig$p0d@newstand.syr.edu>
1995-01-12 16:10 ` Ada to C translator Robert Dewar
1994-09-08 21:12 Kevin H. Hunt x7343
1993-08-04 15:51 Joe Fasano
1990-07-27 12:41 /2000
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