17 Nov
2021
17 Nov
'21
1:49 a.m.
>I take credit as a go-between, not as an inventor.
Ken Knowlton
>introduced the notation ABC in BEFLIX, a pixel-based animation
>language.
In BEFLIX, 'ABC' meant what, exactly?
Offsets from pixel locations?
It meant exactly what A->B->C means in C. Pixels had properties,
represented in data structures. One valid data type was pointer.
Incidentally, another BEFLIX innovation was the buddy system for
dynamic storage allocation.
Doug