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TIL about 'B', the programming language (en.m.wikipedia.org)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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B is a programming language developed at Bell Labs circa 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.

Influenced by BCPL, PL/I, TMG

Influenced C

B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine-independent applications, such as system and language software. It was a typeless language, with the only data type being the underlying machine's natural memory word format, whatever that might be. Depending on the context, the word was treated either as an integer or a memory address.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It could be a joke in a sitcom

What programming language came before and inspired C?

B?

laugh track

That's correct

๐Ÿ˜ฎ

laugh track

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wait till you learn about D

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There's R, too, and J. In fact, every letter has a more-or-less known programming language. Storage was expensive back then!

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can't wait to learn รŸ and ร†!

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I'd use โ˜ƒ๏ธ more but every time I try my computer freezes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I use R for work. Itโ€™s comparable to python

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

BYOND!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

http://www.byond.com/games/

I wish it had client linux support

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The memory word size is the amount of bites your CPU can hold and proces in a single cycle. The word size of a modern computer is usually 64 bit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There was no question in the post. I'm pretty sure that poster knows what "word size" is in this context.

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There was a (sort of) question

whatever that might be

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the "whatever that might be" in that context meant "the machine dependent format could be anything, and it wouldn't matter for B"

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Ah oke