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Comment by naruhodo

3 years ago

> I will call it the Barely C Programming Language

Or BCPL, for short.

> The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a system implementation language for the nascent Unix operating system. Derived from the typeless language BCPL, it evolved a type structure; created on a tiny machine as a tool to improve a meager programming environment, it has become one of the dominant languages of today. This paper studies its evolution. [1]

[1] https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

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