B definition
1. byte.
2. <language> A systems language written by Ken Thompson in
1970 mostly for his own use under Unix on the PDP-11. B
was later improved by Kerninghan(?) and Ritchie to produce
C. B was used as the systems language on Honeywell's
GCOS-3.
B was, according to Ken, greatly influenced by BCPL, but the
name B had nothing to do with BCPL. B was in fact a revision
of an earlier language, bon, named after Ken Thompson's
wife, Bonnie.
["The Programming Language B", S.C. Johnson & B.W. Kernighan,
CS TR 8, Bell Labs (Jan 1973)].
[Features? Differences from C?]
(1997-02-02)
3. <language> A simple interactive programming language by
Lambert Meertens and Steven Pemberton. B was the predecessor
of ABC.
ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/languages/B.tar.Z.
["Draft Proposal for the B Language", Lambert Meertens, CWI,
Amsterdam, 1981].
4. <language, specification> A specification language by
Jean-Raymond Abrial of B Core UK, Magdalen Centre, Oxford
Science Park, Oxford OX4 4GA. B is related to Z and
supports development of C code from specifications. B has
been used in major safety-critical system specifications in
Europe, and is currently attracting increasing interest in
industry. It has robust, commercially available tool support
for specification, design, proof and code generation.
E-mail: <Ib.Sorensen@comlab.ox.ac.uk>.
(1995-04-24)
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