From: John English <je@brighton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Problem trying to implement generics.
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:43:58 +0100
Date: 2001-05-11T09:44:06+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AFBB45E.D74A9578@brighton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3AF786B8.7DE1215B@ix.netcom.com
Lao Xiao Hai wrote:
> If my memory has not failed me, I seem to
> recall that the +=, ++, and certain other shorthand constructs originate on
> the platform for which C was originally designed, the PDP-11.
A common myth, but in fact C was originally developed on the PDP-7.
See http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/pcinfo/history/lucent/chist.htm
for the full story.
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2001-04-11 15:04 Problem trying to implement generics Ayende Rahien
2001-04-12 1:41 ` tmoran
2001-04-12 13:15 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-12 18:15 ` tmoran
2001-04-13 11:18 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-13 10:35 ` chris.danx
2001-04-13 11:54 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-13 11:49 ` chris.danx
2001-04-13 23:03 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-13 23:01 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-14 0:05 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-14 1:12 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-14 1:44 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-14 14:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-04-14 16:30 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-14 16:28 ` Michael Erdmann
2001-04-15 3:27 ` James Rogers
2001-04-15 12:20 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-15 14:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-04-15 18:22 ` tmoran
2001-04-15 13:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-04-15 20:44 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-16 14:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-04-14 1:33 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-17 8:50 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2001-04-17 13:20 ` Tucker Taft
2001-04-17 16:51 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-17 17:16 ` Larry Hazel
2001-04-17 18:11 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-17 19:10 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-17 21:08 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-18 15:16 ` Chad R. Meiners
2001-04-18 16:33 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-17 21:09 ` chris.danx
2001-04-17 21:11 ` chris.danx
2001-04-17 21:17 ` chris.danx
2001-05-08 5:40 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-05-11 9:43 ` John English [this message]
2001-05-12 19:16 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-04-17 19:32 ` Larry Hazel
2001-04-17 21:03 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-18 15:48 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-20 12:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-04-20 12:42 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-04-20 12:45 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-04-20 19:48 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-20 20:36 ` David Starner
2001-04-20 23:02 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-23 2:45 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-24 1:15 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-24 2:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-24 15:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-04-24 15:09 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-04-24 18:36 ` Marius Amado Alves
2001-04-19 13:08 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <9bi4g4$97m$1@nh.pace.Organization: LJK Software <YlSyXUaQmD+$@eisner.encompasserve.org>
2001-04-19 14:20 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-18 5:34 ` Mike Silva
2001-04-18 16:55 ` Ray Blaak
2001-04-24 16:00 ` Tucker Taft
2001-04-12 13:57 ` Andy
2001-04-13 6:34 ` Simon Wright
2001-04-13 11:11 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-12 18:06 ` Stephen Leake
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