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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

#143025 — History of C

Does anyone has links to give us more details about the 
history of C?


- https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

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#143027

On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 4:38:30 PM UTC-3, Thiago Adams wrote:
> Does anyone has links to give us more details about the 
> history of C?

(Does anyone have links...)

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#143028

In article <a3294006-7df0-4250-a626-cc61a925d3c1@googlegroups.com>,
Thiago Adams  <thiago.adams@gmail.com> 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

Have you tried:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C

Very informative.

-- 
"There are two things that are important in politics.
The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is."
	- Mark Hanna -

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#143029

On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 4:52:38 PM UTC-3, Kenny McCormack wrote:
...
> Have you tried:
> 
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
> 
> Very informative.

I think you mean this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)

I would like to link some pdfs about the C Programming language
first edition but I never know if it is legal or not. 

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#143030

On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 3:05:49 PM UTC-5, Thiago Adams wrote:
> On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 4:52:38 PM UTC-3, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> ...
> > Have you tried:
> > 
> >     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
> > 
> > Very informative.
> 
> I think you mean this one:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)
> 
> I would like to link some pdfs about the C Programming language
> first edition but I never know if it is legal or not.

I don't have links, but a few good sources to search for are 
The Unix Manual vol.2 which is full of articles about C, porting
to other machines, early unix utilities written in C, and more.
And the Bell Labs Technical Journal issue about C from around 1980.

bitsavers probably has these and more.

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#143036

On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 3:14:03 PM UTC-5, luser droog wrote:
> On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 3:05:49 PM UTC-5, Thiago Adams wrote:
> > On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 4:52:38 PM UTC-3, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> > ...
> > > Have you tried:
> > > 
> > >     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
> > > 
> > > Very informative.
> > 
> > I think you mean this one:
> > 
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)
> > 
> > I would like to link some pdfs about the C Programming language
> > first edition but I never know if it is legal or not.
> 
> I don't have links, but a few good sources to search for are 
> The Unix Manual vol.2 which is full of articles about C, porting
> to other machines, early unix utilities written in C, and more.
> And the Bell Labs Technical Journal issue about C from around 1980.
> 
> bitsavers probably has these and more.

Drrn. Ought to have dug up links first. This is what I said,

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/att/unix/System_V_Release_2/UNIX_Programmers_Manual_Vol_2_System_Calls_and_Library_Routines_1986.pdf

but I said the wrong thing. I forget which volume or edition. But one of the later
editions from I guess (aware of having recently guessed wrong) '85 (or 6) ... ish? ...
had a one volume of papers that covered this material but were not available elsewhere.

continuing to search...

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#143040

On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 6:04:44 PM UTC-3, luser droog wrote:
> On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 3:14:03 PM UTC-5, luser droog wrote:
> > On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 3:05:49 PM UTC-5, Thiago Adams wrote:
> > > On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 4:52:38 PM UTC-3, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > Have you tried:
> > > > 
> > > >     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
> > > > 
> > > > Very informative.
> > > 
> > > I think you mean this one:
> > > 
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)
> > > 
> > > I would like to link some pdfs about the C Programming language
> > > first edition but I never know if it is legal or not.
> > 
> > I don't have links, but a few good sources to search for are 
> > The Unix Manual vol.2 which is full of articles about C, porting
> > to other machines, early unix utilities written in C, and more.
> > And the Bell Labs Technical Journal issue about C from around 1980.
> > 
> > bitsavers probably has these and more.
> 
> Drrn. Ought to have dug up links first. This is what I said,
> 
> http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/att/unix/System_V_Release_2/UNIX_Programmers_Manual_Vol_2_System_Calls_and_Library_Routines_1986.pdf
> 
> but I said the wrong thing. I forget which volume or edition. But one of the later
> editions from I guess (aware of having recently guessed wrong) '85 (or 6) ... ish? ...
> had a one volume of papers that covered this material but were not available elsewhere.
> 
> continuing to search...

(
 This is a side comment, not on this subject.

 It is very interesting to see (and Unix is a good sample
 of that) how well C can scale. From simple concepts, piece by piece 
 one big system can be created without losing
 control about the complexity because the recipe of doing it,
 and documenting it for instance, scales very well.


)

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#143031

On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 4:38:30 PM UTC-3, 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

- Byte Magazine Volume 08 Number 08 - The C Language 1983
  https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-08

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#143033

On 11/04/2019 21:16, Thiago Adams wrote:
> On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 4:38:30 PM UTC-3, 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
> 
> - Byte Magazine Volume 08 Number 08 - The C Language 1983
>    https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-08
> 

I've posted a link to that before.

Of interest then were the compilation speeds of a set of test compilers 
in the articles comparing C compilers, especially for Z80 (build times 
up to 8 minutes even for those small benchmarks).

One of several reasons why I couldn't use C at the time.

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#143034

On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 5:28:25 PM UTC-3, Bart wrote:
...
> I've posted a link to that before.
Yes, I am trying to put links together.

- pcc history
"he compiler is based on the original Portable C Compiler by 
Stephen C. Johnson, written in the late 70's"

http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/pcc_history/


I think this compiler works as archaeology of the first
compilers.


This has to more links:

A History of UNIX before Berkeley: UNIX Evolution: 1975-1984
- http://www.darwinsys.com/history/hist.html

Evolution of C
- http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/c_evolution.html

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#143044

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.

-- 
Best regards,
Andrey Tarasevich

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#143049

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?)

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Will write code for food.
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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#143047

Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> writes:

> Does anyone has links to give us more details about the 
> history of C?
>
> - https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

Go up a level: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www and look towards
the end.

-- 
Ben.

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#143058

On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 9:16:37 PM UTC-3, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Thiago Adams  writes:
> 
> > Does anyone has links to give us more details about the 
> > history of C?
> >
> > - https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
> 
> Go up a level: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www and look towards
> the end.
> 

Yes, thanks. This is the best source.
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www

Some pdfs from this link:

USERS’ REFERENCE TO B ON MH-TSS
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/bref.pdf

A TUTORIAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LANGUAGE B
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/btut.pdf

C Reference Manual (1975)
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cman.pdf

Recent Changes to C (1978)
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cchanges.pdf

The C Language Calling Sequence (1981)
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/clcs.pdf

Variable-Size Arrays in C 1990
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/vararray.pdf

The Development of the C Language (1993)
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.pdf

Programming in C - A Tutorial
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/ctut.pdf


Other:

Rationale for American National Standard 
for Information Systems - Programming Language - C
https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/rat/title.html

C89/C90: --

C99: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf

C11: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf

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