Re: Ada exception block does NOT work?

[Larry Elmore <ljelmore_@comcast.net>]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:32:01 -0500, Larry Elmore <ljelmore_@comcast.net>
> 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)...

K&R C is generally accepted as the C described in the K&R book "The C
Programming Language" (the first edition, printed in 1978), which was
referenced in a section you snipped.  This was NOT the first version of
C, not by a long shot, and certainly not the C that the first several
versions of Unix were written in.

> 	One would think Ritchie, at least, might have had some insights into
> the potential access problems <G> Even if there was a time-gap between
> the two roles.

Please take a look at:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/primevalC.html

> 	As for C? Before K&R there was B.... And B was spawned from BCPL <G>

If you want to get picky, before B there was NB (New B), but its life
was extremely short.

--Larry