Talk:B (programming language): Difference between revisions

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"Ken Thompson wrote B basing it mainly on the BCPL language he had used to write Unix while in the Multics project."

I think we need to lose the "to write Unix". Then the sentence makes sense and is in agreement with B history as remembered by Dennis Ritchie. [[Special:Contributions/198.142.19.55|198.142.19.55]] ([[User talk:198.142.19.55|talk]]) 16:13, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

:I agree. Dennis Ritchie's ''<[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html The Development of the C Language]> '', states that, "While wanting to use a higher-level language, he [Thompson] wrote the original Unix system in PDP-7 assembler." This is not consistent with the information on this page. Therefore I think changing the sentence to, "Ken Thompson wrote B basing it mainly on the BCPL language he had used in the Multics project.", is justifiable. <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Ctypectype.h|Ctype.h]] ([[User talk:Ctype.h|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Ctype.h|contribs]]) 18:0309, 9 November 2012 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->