C
Programming
In the dim, almost mythological past of programming, the mighty hackers of yore wrote the Combined Programming Language (or CPL) a low level, typeless language suited to the development of system tools. In the 'sixties, this was evolved into Basic CPL (BCPL) by Martin Richards.
A few years later, Ken Thompson at Bell Labs wrote an improved version of BCPLwhich he called B (short for 'brief'). Shortly thereafter, Dennis Ritchie, a colleague of Thompson's, rewrote B to create a new 'mid-level' language. Why call it 'C'? Well, C comes after B...
command line calculator
date arithmetic
dates associated with a file
EBCDIC to ASCII code or ASCII to EBCDIC
sub-directories of the current directory
In the dim, almost mythological past of programming, the mighty hackers of yore wrote the Combined Programming Language (or CPL) a low level, typeless language suited to the development of system tools. In the 'sixties, this was evolved into Basic CPL (BCPL) by Martin Richards.
A few years later, Ken Thompson at Bell Labs wrote an improved version of BCPLwhich he called B (short for 'brief'). Shortly thereafter, Dennis Ritchie, a colleague of Thompson's, rewrote B to create a new 'mid-level' language. Why call it 'C'? Well, C comes after B...
command line calculator
date arithmetic
dates associated with a file
EBCDIC to ASCII code or ASCII to EBCDIC
sub-directories of the current directory