Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!bomgard From: bomgard@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Tim Bomgardner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: a style question Message-ID: <64452@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 13 Oct 90 14:50:50 GMT References: Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 20 In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: }In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: }> 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. } }In article meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: }> Or if you know your UNIX pre-history, the PDP-7. } }Hold on, wasn't the PDP-7 version entirely assembly? }-- }Peter da Silva. `-_-' }+1 713 274 5180. 'U` }peter@ferranti.com All you have to do is read page 1 of K&R 2nd ed. (page 2 in 1st ed.): "The influence of BCPL on C proceeded indirectly through the language B, which was written by Ken Thompson in 1970 for the first UNIX system on the DEC PDP-7." And in the preface, "C was originally designed for and implemented on the UNIX operating system on the DEC PDP-11..."