From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ee1a8b8db84c88f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer2.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C history References: <1639727.IzdcfkcRx7@linux1.krischik.com> <1227518.U5hWOOGjT8@linux1.krischik.com> <5192868.ameRvq1EvN@linux1.krischik.com> In-Reply-To: <5192868.ameRvq1EvN@linux1.krischik.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:50:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1124826609 217.209.116.179 (Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:50:09 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:50:09 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4269 Date: 2005-08-23T19:50:09+00:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > >>On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:32:01 -0500, Larry Elmore >>declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada: >> >> >>>I'm not sure that's necessarily the case. After all, Unix predates K&R >>>and K&R C was certainly not the first version of C. >>> >> >>Pardon? >> >>As I recall, Kernighan and Ritchie /defined/ the original C >>language... The original UNIX was Ritchie and Thompson (and some >>others)... > > > Well, K&R where programmers - so they likely first wrote the program (C > compiler) and and then the book. If you go to Amazon now they will offer > you the 2nd edition with ANSI-C. > > So I guess that looking at he book won't tell you about the very first C. The Development of the C Language, by Dennis M. Ritchie: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html A few points from that article which are relevant to this thread: � Ritchie turned B into C during 1971 to 1973. � The book was written in 1978 and includes a lot that wasn't in the language in 1973. � The primary requirement on B seems to have been that the compiler had to fit in 8 KiB of memory. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu