Talk:B programming language - Revision history

Jnc: Update Bell Labs URLs (blast Nokia)

2025-06-11T20:43:43Z

Update Bell Labs URLs (blast Nokia)

Jnc: Oh, right - thanks!

2019-01-11T15:52:31Z

Oh, right - thanks!

Larsbrinkhoff at 14:23, 11 January 2019

2019-01-11T14:23:35Z

Larsbrinkhoff: /* B to U of W */ Quote from "The Development of the C Language"

2019-01-11T14:23:19Z

‎B to U of W: Quote from "The Development of the C Language"

Jnc: typo

2019-01-11T13:29:56Z

typo

Jnc: Yeah, I thihk that's right - is there something I can read?

2019-01-11T13:08:17Z

Yeah, I thihk that's right - is there something I can read?

Larsbrinkhoff: typo

2019-01-11T07:02:23Z

typo

Larsbrinkhoff at 07:01, 11 January 2019

2019-01-11T07:01:56Z

Larsbrinkhoff: typo

2019-01-11T07:00:55Z

typo

Larsbrinkhoff: Steve Johnson, Yacc, Alan Snyder

2019-01-11T06:59:44Z

Steve Johnson, Yacc, Alan Snyder

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The Bell Labs alumnus, would that be Steve Johnson? I understand he wrote Yacc in B, and then left for U of W. Then Alan Snyder came to the Labs (from MIT). This was the time of the transition from B to C, so alan rewrote Yacc in C. Alan later went back to MIT, and wrote a C compiler running on ITS. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff|talk]]) 07:59, 11 January 2019 (CET)

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 : Right, I thought it was Steve J, but I wasn't sure, and couldn't turn up a reference in a quick search. (Maybe it's in the TUHS archive somewhere.) So I left it anonymous, since I didn't want to chance on my memory being wrong. Do you have a reference? (Yeah, I could have asked him, but I didn't want to bug him.) [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 14:08, 11 January 2019 (CET)
-:: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html, "Steve Johnson visited the University of Waterloo on sabbatical in 1972, he brought B with him. It became popular on the Honeywell machines there, and later spawned Eh and Zed (the Canadian answers to `what follows B?'). When Johnson returned to Bell Labs in 1973, he was disconcerted to find that the language whose seeds he brought to Canada had evolved back home; even his own yacc program had been rewritten in C, by Alan Snyder. " [[User:Larsbrinkhoff|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff|talk]]) 15:23, 11 January 2019 (CET)
+:: https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/chist.html, "Steve Johnson visited the University of Waterloo on sabbatical in 1972, he brought B with him. It became popular on the Honeywell machines there, and later spawned Eh and Zed (the Canadian answers to `what follows B?'). When Johnson returned to Bell Labs in 1973, he was disconcerted to find that the language whose seeds he brought to Canada had evolved back home; even his own yacc program had been rewritten in C, by Alan Snyder. " [[User:Larsbrinkhoff|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff|talk]]) 15:23, 11 January 2019 (CET)
 : Oh, right, I knew I'd seen it somewhere - forgot it was there. Thanks! [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 16:52, 11 January 2019 (CET)

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	:: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html, "Steve Johnson visited the University of Waterloo on sabbatical in 1972, he brought B with him. It became popular on the Honeywell machines there, and later spawned Eh and Zed (the Canadian answers to `what follows B?'). When Johnson returned to Bell Labs in 1973, he was disconcerted to find that the language whose seeds he brought to Canada had evolved back home; even his own yacc program had been rewritten in C, by Alan Snyder. " [[User:Larsbrinkhoff\|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff\|talk]]) 15:23, 11 January 2019 (CET)		:: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html, "Steve Johnson visited the University of Waterloo on sabbatical in 1972, he brought B with him. It became popular on the Honeywell machines there, and later spawned Eh and Zed (the Canadian answers to `what follows B?'). When Johnson returned to Bell Labs in 1973, he was disconcerted to find that the language whose seeds he brought to Canada had evolved back home; even his own yacc program had been rewritten in C, by Alan Snyder. " [[User:Larsbrinkhoff\|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff\|talk]]) 15:23, 11 January 2019 (CET)
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		+	: Oh, right, I knew I'd seen it somewhere - forgot it was there. Thanks! [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 16:52, 11 January 2019 (CET)

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	: Right, I thought it was Steve J, but I wasn't sure, and couldn't turn up a reference in a quick search. (Maybe it's in the TUHS archive somewhere.) So I left it anonymous, since I didn't want to chance on my memory being wrong. Do you have a reference? (Yeah, I could have asked him, but I didn't want to bug him.) [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 14:08, 11 January 2019 (CET)		: Right, I thought it was Steve J, but I wasn't sure, and couldn't turn up a reference in a quick search. (Maybe it's in the TUHS archive somewhere.) So I left it anonymous, since I didn't want to chance on my memory being wrong. Do you have a reference? (Yeah, I could have asked him, but I didn't want to bug him.) [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 14:08, 11 January 2019 (CET)

−	:: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html, "Steve Johnson visited the University of Waterloo on sabbatical in 1972, he brought B with him. It became popular on the Honeywell machines there, and later spawned Eh and Zed (the Canadian answers to `what follows B?'). When Johnson returned to Bell Labs in 1973, he was disconcerted to find that the language whose seeds he brought to Canada had evolved back home; even his own yacc program had been rewritten in C, by Alan Snyder. "	+	:: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html, "Steve Johnson visited the University of Waterloo on sabbatical in 1972, he brought B with him. It became popular on the Honeywell machines there, and later spawned Eh and Zed (the Canadian answers to `what follows B?'). When Johnson returned to Bell Labs in 1973, he was disconcerted to find that the language whose seeds he brought to Canada had evolved back home; even his own yacc program had been rewritten in C, by Alan Snyder. " [[User:Larsbrinkhoff\|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff\|talk]]) 15:23, 11 January 2019 (CET)

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	: Right, I thought it was Steve J, but I wasn't sure, and couldn't turn up a reference in a quick search. (Maybe it's in the TUHS archive somewhere.) So I left it anonymous, since I didn't want to chance on my memory being wrong. Do you have a reference? (Yeah, I could have asked him, but I didn't want to bug him.) [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 14:08, 11 January 2019 (CET)		: Right, I thought it was Steve J, but I wasn't sure, and couldn't turn up a reference in a quick search. (Maybe it's in the TUHS archive somewhere.) So I left it anonymous, since I didn't want to chance on my memory being wrong. Do you have a reference? (Yeah, I could have asked him, but I didn't want to bug him.) [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 14:08, 11 January 2019 (CET)
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		+	:: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html, "Steve Johnson visited the University of Waterloo on sabbatical in 1972, he brought B with him. It became popular on the Honeywell machines there, and later spawned Eh and Zed (the Canadian answers to `what follows B?'). When Johnson returned to Bell Labs in 1973, he was disconcerted to find that the language whose seeds he brought to Canada had evolved back home; even his own yacc program had been rewritten in C, by Alan Snyder. "

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	The Bell Labs alumnus, would that be Steve Johnson? I understand he wrote Yacc in B, and then left for U of W. Then Alan Snyder came to the Labs (from MIT). This was the time of the transition from B to C, so he rewrote Yacc in C. This was a surprise for Steve when he came back to the Labs. Alan later went back to MIT, and wrote a C compiler running on ITS. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff\|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff\|talk]]) 07:59, 11 January 2019 (CET)		The Bell Labs alumnus, would that be Steve Johnson? I understand he wrote Yacc in B, and then left for U of W. Then Alan Snyder came to the Labs (from MIT). This was the time of the transition from B to C, so he rewrote Yacc in C. This was a surprise for Steve when he came back to the Labs. Alan later went back to MIT, and wrote a C compiler running on ITS. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff\|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff\|talk]]) 07:59, 11 January 2019 (CET)

−	: Right, I thought it was Steve J, but I wasn't sure, and couldn't turn up a reference in a quick search. (Maybe it'~~sin~~ the TUHS archive somewhere.) So I left it anonymous, since I didn't want to chance on my memory being wrong. Do you have a reference? (Yeah, I could have asked him, but I didn't want to bug him.) [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 14:08, 11 January 2019 (CET)	+	: Right, I thought it was Steve J, but I wasn't sure, and couldn't turn up a reference in a quick search. (Maybe it's in the TUHS archive somewhere.) So I left it anonymous, since I didn't want to chance on my memory being wrong. Do you have a reference? (Yeah, I could have asked him, but I didn't want to bug him.) [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 14:08, 11 January 2019 (CET)

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−	The Bell Labs alumnus, would that be Steve Johnson? I understand he wrote Yacc in B, and then left for U of W. Then Alan Snyder came to the Labs (from MIT). This was the time of the transition from B to C, so he rewrote Yacc in C. This was a surprise for Steve when he came back to the Labs. Alan later went back to MIT, and wrote a C compiler running on ITS. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff\|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff\|talk]]) 07:59, 11 January 2019 (CET)	+	==B to U of W==
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		+	The Bell Labs alumnus, would that be Steve Johnson? I understand he wrote Yacc in B, and then left for U of W. Then Alan Snyder came to the Labs (from MIT). This was the time of the transition from B to C, so he rewrote Yacc in C. This was a surprise for Steve when he came back to the Labs. Alan later went back to MIT, and wrote a C compiler running on ITS. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff\|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff\|talk]]) 07:59, 11 January 2019 (CET)
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		+	: Right, I thought it was Steve J, but I wasn't sure, and couldn't turn up a reference in a quick search. (Maybe it'sin the TUHS archive somewhere.) So I left it anonymous, since I didn't want to chance on my memory being wrong. Do you have a reference? (Yeah, I could have asked him, but I didn't want to bug him.) [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 14:08, 11 January 2019 (CET)

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−	The Bell Labs alumnus, would that be Steve Johnson? I understand he wrote Yacc in B, and then left for U of W. Then Alan Snyder came to the Labs (from MIT). This was the time of the transition from B to C, so he rewrote Yacc in C. This was a surprise for ~~Steven~~ when he came back to the Labs. Alan later went back to MIT, and wrote a C compiler running on ITS. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff\|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff\|talk]]) 07:59, 11 January 2019 (CET)	+	The Bell Labs alumnus, would that be Steve Johnson? I understand he wrote Yacc in B, and then left for U of W. Then Alan Snyder came to the Labs (from MIT). This was the time of the transition from B to C, so he rewrote Yacc in C. This was a surprise for Steve when he came back to the Labs. Alan later went back to MIT, and wrote a C compiler running on ITS. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff\|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff\|talk]]) 07:59, 11 January 2019 (CET)

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−	The Bell Labs alumnus, would that be Steve Johnson? I understand he wrote Yacc in B, and then left for U of W. Then Alan Snyder came to the Labs (from MIT). This was the time of the transition from B to C, so he rewrote Yacc in C. Alan later went back to MIT, and wrote a C compiler running on ITS. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff\|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff\|talk]]) 07:59, 11 January 2019 (CET)	+	The Bell Labs alumnus, would that be Steve Johnson? I understand he wrote Yacc in B, and then left for U of W. Then Alan Snyder came to the Labs (from MIT). This was the time of the transition from B to C, so he rewrote Yacc in C. This was a surprise for Steven when he came back to the Labs. Alan later went back to MIT, and wrote a C compiler running on ITS. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff\|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff\|talk]]) 07:59, 11 January 2019 (CET)

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−	The Bell Labs alumnus, would that be Steve Johnson? I understand he wrote Yacc in B, and then left for U of W. Then Alan Snyder came to the Labs (from MIT). This was the time of the transition from B to C, so ~~alan~~ rewrote Yacc in C. Alan later went back to MIT, and wrote a C compiler running on ITS. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff\|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff\|talk]]) 07:59, 11 January 2019 (CET)	+	The Bell Labs alumnus, would that be Steve Johnson? I understand he wrote Yacc in B, and then left for U of W. Then Alan Snyder came to the Labs (from MIT). This was the time of the transition from B to C, so he rewrote Yacc in C. Alan later went back to MIT, and wrote a C compiler running on ITS. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff\|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff\|talk]]) 07:59, 11 January 2019 (CET)