It could be a joke in a sitcom
What programming language came before and inspired C?
B?
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That's correct
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2024
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I'm waiting for info about A language now.
Wait till you learn about D
There's R, too, and J. In fact, every letter has a more-or-less known programming language. Storage was expensive back then!
The memory word size is the amount of bites your CPU can hold and proces in a single cycle. The word size of a modern computer is usually 64 bit.
There was no question in the post. I'm pretty sure that poster knows what "word size" is in this context.
There was a (sort of) question
whatever that might be
the "whatever that might be" in that context meant "the machine dependent format could be anything, and it wouldn't matter for B"
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