[TUHS] What would early alternatives to C have been?

Luther Johnson luther.johnson at makerlisp.com
Mon Mar 10 12:54:15 AEST 2025


Got it. My misunderstanding, acknowledged.

On 03/09/2025 06:51 PM, John Levine wrote:
> It appears that Luther Johnson <luther.johnson at makerlisp.com> said:
>> I believe CP/M was written entirely in 8080 assembly language. PL/M was
>> a PL/1 subset, I think Gary Kildall was the main programmer behind that,
>> and I'm sure there was a version for CP/M, but I doubt CP/M was written
>> in it, ...
> See this Wikipedia article on PL/M, which summarizes the history that
> Kildall wrote up in a 1993 manuscript now online at the CHM. If he
> says he wrote it in PL/M I am inclined to believe him.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/M#CITEREFKildall1993
>
> R's,
> John
>



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