B語言

B語言是一种通用的程序设计语言。自從被C語言取代之後，幾乎已遭棄置。

B語言大約是於1969年時由美國貝爾實驗室的電腦科學家──肯·湯普森在丹尼斯·利奇的支持下設計出來的。肯·湯普森最初想在UNIX上開發一個Fortran編譯器，但後來引進了BCPL的風格，形成一個新的語言。

後來，丹尼斯·利奇以B語言為基礎開發出C語言，至此C語言漸漸發展成為目前世界上最常用的程式語言之一。

 例子 
下面是肯·湯普森在《B用户参考》中提供的源代碼：

/* The following function will print a non-negative number, n, to
   the base b, where 2<=b<=10.  This routine uses the fact that
   in the ASCII character set, the digits 0 to 9 have sequential
   code values.  */

printn(n, b) {
    extrn putchar;
    auto a;
    /* Wikipedia note: auto declares a variable with automatic
       storage (lifetime is function scope), not "automatic typing"
       as in C++11. */

    if (a = n / b) /* assignment, not test for equality */
        printn(a, b); /* recursive */
    putchar(n % b + '0');
}

/* The following program will calculate the constant e-2 to about
   4000 decimal digits, and print it 50 characters to the line in
   groups of 5 characters.  The method is simple output conversion
   of the expansion
     1/2! + 1/3! + ... = .111....
   where the bases of the digits are 2, 3, 4, . . . */

main() {
    extrn putchar, n, v;
    auto i, c, col, a;

    i = col = 0;
    while(i<n)
        v[i++] = 1;
    while(col<2*n) {
        a = n+1 ;
        c = i = 0;
        while (i<n) {
            c =+ v[i] *10;
            v[i++]  = c%a;
            c =/ a--;
        }
        putchar(c+'0');
        if(!(++col%5))
            putchar(col%50?' ': '*n');
    }
    putchar('*n*n');
}
v[2000];
n 2000;

 參見 
 BCPL
 C語言

引用

 外部連結 
 The Development of the C Language
 Users' Reference to B，Ken Thompson著
 The Programming Language B

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