I just looked up B (again, had seen it earlier): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)

I just looked up B (again, had seen it earlier): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language) From the above article: >B is typeless, or more precisely has one data type: the computer word. I had read the Martin Richards (inventor of the language) book about BCPL (predecessor of B) early in my career, although I could not work on it, since there was no machine available to me that could run it. (It was already outdated then.) Interesting language though, and even the systems software examples shown in the book (written using BCPL) were cool. You're right about why C was created, byte addressability. From the article about C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language) >The original PDP-11 version of Unix was developed in assembly language. The developers were considering rewriting the system using the B language, Thompson's simplified version of BCPL.[11] However B's inability to take advantage of some of the PDP-11's features, notably byte addressability, led to C.