From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 6:42:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E16837B403 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 06:42:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5DDg6J54728; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:42:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3B276DAE.9567AE27@nisser.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:42:06 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eBOA - Programming the Web X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will the next one be D or P? (Was: vi) References: <15143.4018.394413.713952@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer wrote: > > ... > > C was a compiled variant of B which was an adaptation of BCPL. Yeah, my memory failed me there. B/BCPL I've never touched anyway. Got my first initiation with Algol '68. And some TTL/core based hardware design . > > Hence it came known that God moves if not writes in mysterious ways ;). > > Or at least Ritchie. Wasn't one the adaptation of the other? My memory... bad... ;) Roelof -- _______________________________________________________________________ eBOAź est. 1982 http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=Information_request fax. +31-58-2160293 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message