B programming language? (opens in new tab)

Honeywell B was a true compiler. There were lots of ways to implement B. It’s also important to understand that on many early machines a subroutine call was a single machine word instruction so occupied just as much space as the address itself as data would. Some machines also had instructions that were the equivalent of something akin to jump to the address in the machine word pointed to be register r and increment register r, so each “subroutine” actually was simply a piece of code jumped t...