Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

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> BCPL was typeless, as was the successor B (between Bell Labs and GE we 

B isn't quite typeless. It has minimal inbuilt support for concepts like
strings (although you can of course multiply a string by an array
pointer ;))

It also had some elegances that C lost, notably 

	case 1..5:

the ability to do no zero biased arrays

	x[40];
	x-=10;

and the ability to reassign function names.

	printk = wombat;

as well as stuff like free(function);

Alan (who learned B before C, and is still waiting for P)
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