[TUHS] mental architecture models, Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Sun Jul 7 23:57:32 AEST 2024


    > From: Steve Jenkin

    > C wasn't the first standardised coding language, FORTRAN & COBOL at
    > least were before it

There were a ton; Algol-60 is the most imppotant one I can think of.

(I was thinking that Algol-60 was probably an important precursor to BCPL,
which was the predecessor to C, but Richards' first BCPL paper:

  https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1476793.1476880

"BCPL: A tool for compiler writing and system programming" doesn't call it
out, only CPL. However, CPL does admit its dues to Algol-60: "CPL is to a
large extent based on ALGOL 60".)

	Noel


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