Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Wirth-ian languages Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:28:30 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <20140428111524.742@kylheku.com> <94y7v.153301$AI5.43400@fx32.am4> <20140428125523.803@kylheku.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.misc:2089 On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:38:41 -0400, James Harris wrote: > "Rod Pemberton" wrote in message > news:op.xe2s1zad6zenlw@localhost... >> On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 03:24:02 -0400, James Harris >> wrote: >>> "Rod Pemberton" wrote in message >>>> It can be argued that many of these features, and others, exist in C >>>> because the original authors (Kernighan, Ritchie, Thompson) ported >>>> C to so many different computing platforms and had to redesign the >>>> language to fit, as many as possible, as cleanly as possible. >>> >>> I was surprised to see Kernighan's name in there. What was his >>> involvement? >> >> K&R C ... What do you think the 'K' and 'R' in K&R are for? >> >> Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. > > Yes, that's a book! Because the book became so popular some people assume > Kernighan had a hand in writing C but I was sure you would have known > that > he did not. Interesting point. Actually, I never gave it much thought to it. The books on C which I recollect did nothing more than mention their names in passing. So, I guess that was an assumption on my part since both were named for the book and unofficial language standard. I've never read K&R C. It seemed less informative that other books. Was that mentioned in there? > I would be interested to hear that he had a hand in porting C > but have never heard of that before. He certainly was not an > author of C. I currently only have the handful of C papers Ritchie placed on the internet to search through for references, and a few others. My C library (books) has been packed away for many years, except the two books I've told you about previously. Rod Pemberton