[TUHS] Fwd: [multicians] History of C (with Multics reference)

[John Cowan]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 1:32 AM John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> wrote:


> There was clearly a lot of cross-fertilization between early APL systems
> and Bon.  (APL was the first computer language I dug deeply into.)  Some
> of the common elements are the interactive execution environment,
> untyped variables, and automatic application of builtin functions (like
> +) across all elements of arrays.
>

In particular, doing gotos by assigning to a variable is very old-school
APL.



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