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TIL about 'B', the programming language (en.m.wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca

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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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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 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!

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can't wait to learn ß and Æ!

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, not those letters but other weird ones include ʘ, Ø, Ð, Ⅎ, €, Ↄ, ☃, ⫵, 彁, 横, 🖴.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

I'd use ☃️ more but every time I try my computer freezes.

[–] chellomere@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I use R for work. It’s comparable to python