[Simh] An abandoned piece of K&R C
Bob Eager
rde at tavi.co.uk
Fri Nov 3 06:33:01 EDT 2017
On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 22:14:42 -0700
Leo Broukhis <leob at mailcom.com> wrote:
> https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/4965/4025
>
>
> In the UNIX V7 version of the C language, there were the /\ (min) and
> the \/ (max) operators.
As an aside, many will know that C is based on B, and B was based on
BCPL.
I used BCPL a *lot*. The logical AND operator in BCPL could be written
as:
AND
&
/\
and logical OR could be written as:
LOGOR
|
\/
Perhaps someone decided it would be confusing.
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