> 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)
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