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Developed in 1969-70 by Ken Thompson at Bell Labs
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Did not use data-types: everything was expressed in 18-bit machine words
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Derives from BCPL
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B can be thought of as C without types
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B supports MEMORY[location] notation
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B also supports *location notation
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No LINK: B generates assembly, the assembler produces the executable, yielding "a.out"
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Ken Thompson, image courtesy of Computer History Museum, computerhistory.org/
