| | B programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | B was essentially the BCPL system stripped of any component that Thompson felt he could do without, in order to make it fit within the memory capacity of the minicomputers of the time. |
 | | During 1971 and 1972 B evolved into "New B" and then C, with the preprocessor being added in 1972 and early 1973 at the urging of Alan Snyder. |
 | | B continued to see use as late as the 1990s on Honeywell mainframes, and on certain embedded systems for a variety of reasons, including limited hardware in the small systems; extensive libraries, tools, licensing cost issues; and simply being good enough for the job on others. |
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