Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

Alan Cox
2007-11-30T23:44:34Z

> BCPL was typeless, as was the successor B (between Bell Labs and GE we

B isn't quite typeless. It has minimal inbuilt support for concepts like
strings (although you can of course multiply a string by an array
pointer ;))

It also had some elegances that C lost, notably

case 1..5:

the ability to do no zero biased arrays

x[40];
x-=10;

and the ability to reassign function names.

printk = wombat;

as well as stuff like free(function);

Alan (who learned B before C, and is still waiting for P)