[TUHS] Non-US Unix Activities

Random832 random832 at fastmail.com
Mon Apr 10 05:20:46 AEST 2017


On Sun, Apr 9, 2017, at 12:57, Toby Thain wrote:
> On 2017-04-09 7:03 AM, Alec Muffett wrote:
> > I honestly can't remember; I think it was the Aberystwyth sysadmin (Rob
> > Ash) who write a B prettifier (the cited BTIDY) but I can't remember
> > whether B as a language used/ignored line numbers, or if this was just a
> > prettyprint thing.
> 
> Looks like something added in printing and not in the source. 
> Mercifully, B doesn't use line numbers.

The fact that they're not on every line and increment by 10 is what made
me think of BASIC.



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