Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: a style question Message-ID: Date: 12 Oct 90 16:08:12 GMT References: <1990Oct6.231143.28186@zoo.toronto.edu> <65263@lanl.gov> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 26 In-reply-to: peter@ficc.ferranti.com's message of 12 Oct 90 03:11:50 GMT In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: | Path: paperboy!snorkelwacker!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter | From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) | Newsgroups: comp.lang.c | Date: 12 Oct 90 03:11:50 GMT | References: <1990Oct6.231143.28186@zoo.toronto.edu> <65263@lanl.gov> | Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) | Organization: Xenix Support, FICC | Lines: 15 | | In article <65263@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes: | > In the _very_ early days of C, it may have compared well to the PDP-8 | > assembler - mostly because it way practically an upward compatible | > extension of that assembler. | | Talking of contrary to observed fact: the PDP-8 had no part in the | development of the C programming language. Perhaps you're thinking | of the PDP-11. Or if you know your UNIX pre-history, the PDP-7. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Do apple growers tell their kids money doesn't grow on bushes?