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| From | Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C |
| Date | 2020-12-14 16:58 -0600 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <rr8qmi$cis$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <970179948.629520322.102749.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <i3mnv5Fl90uU18@mid.individual.net> <rr8eg2$ld8$1@dont-email.me> <rr8g9n$4bd$1@dont-email.me> |
On 12/14/2020 2:00 PM, Dan Espen wrote:
> Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> writes:
>
>> On 12/13/2020 8:49 AM, Bob Eager wrote:
>>> On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 19:46:16 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://apple.news/A_-wNCMkYTUqUYmLw17kK-A
>>> I have actually met David Barron on a number of occasions. I have
>>> had
>>> dinner with David Wheeler several times. When I went up to Martin
>>> Campbell-Kelly (who I had admired for years) at a meeting a couple of
>>> years ago, I was gobsmacked to find out that he already knew who *I* was!
>>> I have had a lot of contact with Martin Richards (I used to run a BCPL
>>> user group).
>>> And I met Ritchie and Thompson once, briefly.
>>> This is all quite worrying as some of them are now dead.
>>
>> I remember when Dennis Ritchie would post on the newsgroup comp.lang.c
>
> Sort of gives him an air of authority.
> He posted here many times.
>
I took a multi-year hiatus from Usenet.
Went from needing serious consultation on C using comp.lang.c when I was a C programmer to looking
at C as folklore after not using it (or Usenet) for a decade or so.
So I missed my chance to interact with Dennis here.
I would hate to live without a garbage collector these days.
But if I needed to do anything "real-time" ("ring zero" stuff) I think C is still a viable choice
of language.
I liked the standardization documents and the language definition documents that accompanied C.
IIRC the world treated languages differently back then. I don't have an exact description of how
they were different, but it seemed things were more formally specified back then. BNF diagrams
and all.
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Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-20 10:43 -0500
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-12-20 16:38 +0000
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Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-21 13:37 -0500
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Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-21 16:03 -0500
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Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-20 13:19 -0500
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-12-20 18:40 +0000
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-12-20 14:03 -0500
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-20 18:09 -0500
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-12-21 08:11 +0000
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Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-12-21 17:33 +0000
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-20 17:35 -0700
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-12-21 18:10 +0000
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-21 13:23 -0500
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-12-21 13:37 -0500
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-12-22 18:59 +0000
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-22 14:23 -0500
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-12-21 19:31 +0000
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-12-14 20:17 +0000
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-12-14 21:24 +0000
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-12-14 19:30 -0500
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-12-14 21:06 -0500
Re: “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-12-14 19:08 +0000
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