Re: Is multi-level function return possible?

Andy Walker <news@cuboid.co.uk>
Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:34:13 +0000

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From: Andy Walker <news@cuboid.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:34:13 +0000
Organization: Not very much
References: 14-03-020 14-03-022 14-03-025 14-03-030 14-03-044 14-03-046 14-03-047 14-03-048 14-03-053 14-03-057 14-03-061
Keywords: C, history, comment
Posted-Date: 26 Mar 2014 20:41:42 EDT

On 26/03/14 12:16, the Moderator wrote:
> [C was influenced by PL/I. C++ is where the Algol68 got mixed in, and some
> of the C++ stuff was backported into C. -John]


Dennis Ritchie, in "The Development of the C Language" [online at
"http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.pdf"] quotes three influences
of PL/I: comments, file inclusion and the use of "pointer->member" even when
"pointer" has the wrong type. OTOH, he quotes four influences of Algol 68:
the notation for assignment operators, the scheme of type composition, unions
and casts. Wiki also quotes him as saying "And yes, of course, "long".".
Make of that what you will, but it all pre-dates C++. It is also getting
away from debate about compilers ....


--
Andy Walker,
Nottingham.
[I went back and reread the paper. You're right. -John]

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