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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: C on Sixth Edition UNIX
Message-ID: <1989Nov26.024148.22623@phri.nyu.edu>
Date: 26 Nov 89 02:41:48 GMT
References: <31@altos86.Altos.COM>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
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In article <31@altos86.Altos.COM> clp@altos86.UUCP (Chuck L. Peterson) writes:
> The C as delivered on Sixth Edition UNIX is otherwise known as "C=-".

	It may have been missing some modern features, but at least it
worked.  That is more than I can say about the f77 delivered with v6.
We're talking about things like logical if statements not working right.

	Raise your hand if you ran the Princeton port of RT-11 Fortran on
your v6 machine.  From the early days of Unix, Fortran has been a bastard
son, grudgingly supported, but not really given the same respect as C.
This has been less true over the past couple of years, but the bigotry
still shows through.
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