6 Sep
2002
6 Sep
'02
12:28 p.m.
In article by Lars Brinkhoff:
Warren Toomey <wkt(a)minnie.tuhs.org> writes:
Yes that's it!! Where did you find it?
Warren
The chist paper doesn't mention NB, which
was the missing link between
B and C.
How about this?
In 1971 I began to extend the B language by adding a character type
and also rewrote its compiler to generate PDP-11 machine instructions
instead of threaded code. Thus the transition from B to C was
contemporaneous with the creation of a compiler capable of producing
programs fast and small enough to compete with assembly language. I
called the slightly-extended language NB, for `new B.'
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