S (programming language) it has the common letter used in statistical computing, and is consistent with other programming languages designed from the same institution at the time (namely the C programming language). When UNIX/32V was ported to the (then new) 32-bit DEC VAX, computing on the Unix platform became feasible for S. In late 1979, S was ported from GCOS to UNIX, which would become the new primary platform. In 1980 the first version of S was distributed outside Bell Laboratories and in 1981 source versions were made available. In 1984 two books were published by the research team at Bell Laboratories: "S:
HMS Spearfish was reported that she sank her sister ship, . Later that year, on 20 May, she sank two Danish fishing vessels "S.130" and "S.175" with gunfire in the North Sea. "Spearfish" sailed from Rosyth on 31 July 1940, still under the command of "Jock" Forbes, to patrol off the Norwegian coast. On 1 August she was spotted on the surface by the under the command of Wilhelm Rollmann who attacked and sank her, about west-southwest of Stavanger. There was only one survivor. HMS Spearfish HMS "Spearfish" was a second-batch S-class submarine built during the 1930s for the Royal Navy. Completed