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C was originally a watered down version of BCPL because the computers they were targeting had very limited capabilities compared to other computers of the time.
by davexunit 10y ago
C was originally a watered down version of BCPL because the computers they were targeting had very limited capabilities compared to other computers of the time. The first version of C didn't even have floating point numbers.
- pjmlp 10y agoMeanwhile in 1961 we had ESPOL, followed by NEWP, nowadays living on the Unisys MCP ClearPath mainframes.