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| From | Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: complex number in struct form in C |
| Date | 2015-03-24 19:41 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <mesvtn$i0g$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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Malcolm McLean wrote: > On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 1:18:32 PM UTC, Bart wrote: >> On 30/12/2014 12:17, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >>> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes: >>> >>>> On 30/12/2014 03:07, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: >>> <snip> >>>>> I was just recalling some of Knuth's examples. You can argue it >>>>> out with him if you would like. >>>> >>>> This is the chap who used a made-up assembly language called MIX in >>>> his books (based around 6-bit word lengths or something)? This is >>>> instead of using a made-up high-level language (ie. pseudo-code) that >>>> people could understand. >>>> >>>> Enough said... >>> >>> Really? A few ill-informed remarks about a book you don't seem to have >>> read is saying enough? Enough for what? To dismiss everything else the >>> author has written? >> >> It shows he does sometimes make quirky choices that some are not going >> to agree with. It doesn't mean dismiss everything as nonsense but you >> might want to make your own mind up about some things which might just >> be opinions rather than absolute truths. >> >> (I course I haven't read the 5-volumes about typesetting as you have. >> But have managed to produce several presentable manuals with fonts, >> diagrams and images, without their benefit and without any fixed point >> that I remember.) >> > Donald Knuth was one of the world's leading experts on computer > programming, author of what is accepted as the canonical standard > textbook on the subject. > > With hindsight, he should have gone with C. But he had no way of knowing > at the time how stable C would prove. > Knuth did what he did for very good pedagogical, technical and no doubt personal reasons. Oberon or Modula probably should have taken over for 'C'. But it's easy to forget what the world looked like then: https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-08/1983_08_BYTE_08-08_The_C_Language#page/n47/mode/2up -- Les Cargill
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complex number in struct form in C Dexterr <dejangru@gmail.com> - 2014-12-21 07:20 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-21 11:30 -0500
Re: complex number in struct form in C Dexterr <dejangru@gmail.com> - 2014-12-21 08:35 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2014-12-21 10:54 -0600
Re: complex number in struct form in C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-21 12:00 -0500
Re: complex number in struct form in C "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2014-12-21 11:08 -0600
Re: complex number in struct form in C Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2014-12-21 10:12 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2014-12-21 13:22 -0600
Re: complex number in struct form in C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-12-21 22:21 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2014-12-26 11:34 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2014-12-26 14:10 -0600
Re: complex number in struct form in C glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-28 07:04 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-12-28 13:14 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-28 10:45 -0600
Re: complex number in struct form in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-28 08:56 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-29 10:10 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-12-29 19:40 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-29 20:54 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-12-29 21:55 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-30 03:07 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-12-30 10:51 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C Rosario193 <Rosario@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-30 12:15 +0100
Re: complex number in struct form in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-30 03:31 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-12-30 12:17 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-12-30 13:18 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-30 05:28 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-12-30 13:53 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2014-12-30 08:53 -0600
Re: complex number in struct form in C "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-12-30 20:05 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-30 17:40 -0500
Re: complex number in struct form in C Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-03-24 08:58 -0700
Re: complex number in struct form in C Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2015-03-24 19:41 -0500
Re: complex number in struct form in C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-12-30 14:59 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C David Thompson <dave.thompson2@verizon.net> - 2015-01-12 15:33 -0500
Re: complex number in struct form in C glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-01-12 22:51 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-01-12 23:34 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-26 15:25 -0500
Re: complex number in struct form in C glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-28 07:17 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-12-26 20:49 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2014-12-27 00:22 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2014-12-27 08:25 -0600
Re: complex number in struct form in C Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-27 10:20 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2014-12-27 13:21 -0600
Re: complex number in struct form in C Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-27 13:11 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2014-12-27 15:36 -0600
Re: complex number in struct form in C Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-27 14:54 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-27 15:45 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-27 13:40 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-28 06:50 -0500
Re: complex number in struct form in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-28 04:25 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-28 06:44 -0500
Re: complex number in struct form in C Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-12-28 08:33 -0500
Re: complex number in struct form in C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-27 11:46 -0500
Re: complex number in struct form in C glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-28 07:28 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-12-27 17:23 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-21 14:37 -0500
Re: complex number in struct form in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-12-21 12:37 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-22 00:54 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-21 11:54 -0500
Re: complex number in struct form in C Vincenzo Mercuri <nomail@yahoo.it> - 2014-12-21 18:07 +0100
Re: complex number in struct form in C Dexterr <dejangru@gmail.com> - 2014-12-21 10:37 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-12-21 10:55 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2014-12-22 12:15 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C Dexterr <dejangru@gmail.com> - 2014-12-22 05:51 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-12-22 14:01 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-12-22 08:02 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-12-22 08:03 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-12-21 22:27 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-12-21 10:51 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C Dexterr <dejangru@gmail.com> - 2014-12-21 11:14 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-21 17:17 -0800
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