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 18:44:13 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!sjc-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Ada to C Translator In-Reply-To: <63oi+WrfiL8n@eisner.decus.org> Message-ID: 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> <63oi+WrfiL8n@eisner.decus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 02:41:08 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.139.136 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: sjc-read.news.verio.net 978576068 206.184.139.136 (Thu, 04 Jan 2001 02:41:08 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 02:41:08 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3640 Date: 2001-01-04T02:41:08+00:00 List-Id: On 3 Jan 2001, Larry Kilgallen wrote: > 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. 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