Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!ncsuvx!mcnc!ecsvax!cjl From: cjl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Charles Lord) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Basics of Program Design Summary: C WAS on PDP-11 first... Message-ID: <5443@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Date: 22 Jul 88 18:46:07 GMT References: <901@td2cad.intel.com> <3061@rpp386.UUCP> <395@proxftl.UUCP> <182@quintus.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Triangle R&D Corp,RTP,NC Lines: 21 In article <182@quintus.UUCP>, ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: > No part of the design of C caters to the PDP-11. > C is BCPL ... > and (b) history is against you: C's designers claim that they put this > feature in *before* they got a PDP-11. WRONG. C *was* based on BCPL which predates the '11 *but* K&R state in the Preface to THE book, 1st ed: "C was originally designed for ... UNIX ... on the DEC PDP-11, by Dennis Ritchie" They do go on to state that C was and is still meant to be machine- independent, but the language WAS born on the PDP-11. [quote copped without permission. Sorry, Dennis] -- Charles Lord cjl@ecsvax.UUCP Usenet Cary, NC cjl@ecsvax.BITNET Bitnet #include #include