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Is this some kind of C--? scnr

• hnlmorg 5y ago
  I don't know what scnr means, but yes, B is literally `C--` as you put it. Basically B was based on BCPL, a really early systems language. Then B was rewritten as C. The next iteration of C was called C++ as a joke because it's C plus 1. Though there has since been another language created as an evolution of C called D From what I gather, B never really got much use outside of Bell Labs. But I might have missed some reports on other people using it.
  • 1f60c 5y ago
    > I don't know what scnr means Wiktionary tells me it stands for "sorry, could not resist". https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/SCNR https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/SCNR
  • BoxOfRain 5y ago
    Apparently AberMUD (way before my time but developed in Aberystwyth where I was a student) was written in B.
  • user2994cb 5y ago
    And BCPL was a cut down version of CPL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPL_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPL_(programming_language)
    • pjmlp 5y ago
      Actually designed for Bootstraping CPL.
      • user2994cb 5y ago
        Lots of interesting details here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/cpl2bcpl.pdf http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/cpl2bcpl.pdf