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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by eschaton on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:17AM (#14592362)
It wasn't "almost" a predecessor to C, it was a direct predecessor.
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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by pjmlp on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:36AM (#14592420)
There was B in between, which was Ken's attempt to a BCPL compiler, even the language's manuals look quite similar.
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