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These are only a few questions that might be asked by someone uninitiated in the finer arts of computer-speak. You might start like: “B programming language was a transitional phase between BCPL and C. BCPL consisted of …. but was felt to be redundant by … Ken Thompson…. because …”, etc. Who was Ken Thompson, anyway?
The article as it stands is next to useless because there are so many things unexplained. [[User:Dieter Simon|Dieter Simon]] 01:16, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
== "Character data type"? ==
The article says:
:The typeless nature of B made sense on the Honeywell, PDP-7 and many older computers, but was a problem on the PDP-11 because it was difficult to elegantly access the character data type that the PDP-11 and most modern computers fully support.
What does the "character data type" refer to? (Just some notion of a single byte type that allows 7-bit ASCII plus extensions to be represented, or something more complex?) I think it would be worth elaborting on what this feature is and why it wasn't convenient to use with B. [[User:Neilc|Neilc]] 10:32, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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