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From: mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The history of C (was Re: C critisisms)
Message-ID: <1333@winchester.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 07:50:38 GMT
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Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey)
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In article <881@micomvax.UUCP> ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) writes:
...
>BCPL was developed by a guy called Hendry, I believe, Scottish, first name
>unremembered.

>Please net, supply the credits here (Fai, only if you KNOW, not if you just
>THINK, or HEARD THAT)!

M. Richards, "BCPL: A Tools for Compiler Writing and Systems Programming",
Proc. AFIPS SJCC, 34 (1969), pp. 557-566.

This discussion has gone on a while.  Would it be too much to ask that
nobody else volunteer information on C history unless they've
read the clearly-stated, definitive information in "The C Programming
Language" article in the 1978 "UNIX Time-Sharing Issue" of the Bell System
Technical Journal, which is also published as a widely-available book?
-- 
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