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I don’t understand with which detail of my statements you don’t agree.

• pjmlp 8y ago
  His B "invention" in reality was closer to copying and dropping a few features from BCPL than actually inventing something new.
  • acqq 8y ago
    Well, it can be argued that most of the “structured” languages were “dropping something” from Algol. Or later from Ada... yes, nothing fundamentally original happens often. But people give the names to the languages they make... even “dropping” is something “creative” often worth naming. Apparently Unix kept only minimum of Multics. Sometimes exactly the “bigger” variants aren’t fit to survive.