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Re: History of C

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: History of C
Date 2019-04-11 17:40 -0700
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Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> writes:
> On 4/11/2019 12:38 PM, Thiago Adams wrote:
>> Does anyone has links to give us more details about the
>> history of C?
>> 
>> - https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
>
> The "Rationale for C99" document
>
>      http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/C99RationaleV5.10.pdf
>
> contains considerable amount of information pertinent to the original 
> C89/90 standard as well, i.e. provides rationale for the decisions made 
> when C was standardized for the first time.

And the ANSI C Rationale (C89) is at
    https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/rat/title.html
It's not available as a PDF document as far as I know.

(Wasn't there supposed to be a C11 Rationale document?)

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History of C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-04-11 12:38 -0700
  Re: History of C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-04-11 12:51 -0700
  Re: History of C gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-04-11 19:52 +0000
    Re: History of C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-04-11 13:05 -0700
      Re: History of C luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-04-11 13:13 -0700
        Re: History of C luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-04-11 14:04 -0700
          Re: History of C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-04-11 14:52 -0700
  Re: History of C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-04-11 13:16 -0700
    Re: History of C Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-04-11 21:28 +0100
      Re: History of C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-04-11 13:32 -0700
  Re: History of C Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> - 2019-04-11 16:36 -0700
    Re: History of C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-11 17:40 -0700
  Re: History of C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-04-12 01:16 +0100
    Re: History of C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-04-12 05:05 -0700

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