Like someone else mentioned below, B isn't really typeless, so much as it's all just one type, which was the standard for BCPL -- everything is just a word! If

Like someone else mentioned below, B isn't really typeless, so much as it's all just one type, which was the standard for BCPL -- everything is just a word! If memory serves, part of what made C itself was adding "char", which refers to a single byte, using the (newly released!) PDP-11's byte addressing mode (which didn't exist on the machines B was started on). Nowadays we do byte addressing for everything, but in PDP-11 machine code a byte address and word address are different AFAIK, so char and int pointers would be incompatible.