Re: [TUHS] Non-US Unix Activities

I think there is a beautiful simplicity to B code as a high level assembler or universal machine language. The lack of types is closer to the machine since a CPU generally does not enforce types on memory or register cells. Adding types to B (to create C) was an excellent design choice, however another choice would have been to keep it type-less. Operator forms would explicitly encode the appropriate type (such as unsigned right shift >>> in Java, or floating point add #+ in BCPL.) Pointer dereference and increment symbols would also need size annotation (perhaps char and word forms would suffice.) It is interesting to ponder such a language as a universal target for higher level language compilers, or as a specialized language for OS and device driver development.<div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br /> <table style="border-top: 1px solid #D3D4DE;"> <tr> <td style="width: 55px; padding-top: 13px;"><a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=… target="_blank"><img src="https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/icons/icon-envelope-tick-round-or… width="46" height="29" style="width: 46px; height: 29px;" /></a></td> <td style="width: 470px; padding-top: 12px; color: #41424e; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Virus-free. <a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=… target="_blank" style="color: #4453ea;">www.avast.com</a> </td> </tr> </table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div>