| What you say is right, and it would have been less lazy for me to provide links to the documents that I have quoted. On the other hand, I have provided all the information that is needed for anyone to find those documents through a Web search, in a few seconds. I have the quoted documents, but it is not helpful to know from where they were downloaded a long time ago, because, unfortunately, the Internet URLs are not stable. So for links, I just have to search them again, like anyone else. These documents can be found in many places. For instance, searching "b language manual 1972" finds as the first link: https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/kbman... Searching "martin richards bcpl 1967" finds as the first link: https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/bcpl.... Additional searching for CPL and BCPL language documents finds https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_o... where there are a lot of early documents about the languages BCPL and CPL. Searching for "Wirth Euler language 1966" finds the 2-part paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365153.365162 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365170.365202 There exists an earlier internal report about Euler from April 1965 at Stanford, before the publication of the language in CACM, where both indirection and address-of were prefix, like later in BCPL. However, before the publication in January 1966, indirection has been changed to be a postfix operator, choice that has been retained in the later languages of Wirth. http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/65/20/CS-TR-65-... The early IBM PL/I manuals are available at http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/pli/ Searching for "algol 68 reports" will find a lot of documents. And so on, everything can be searched and found immediately. |