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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: using (ugh!  yetch!) assembler
Message-ID: <2704@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 4 Aug 88 06:36:24 GMT
References: <37406@linus.UUCP> <33@taux02.UUCP>
Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <33@taux02.UUCP> amos@taux02.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
>In article <37406@linus.UUCP> munck@faron.UUCP (Robert Munck) writes:
>>C is probably the only computer language that's
>>older than most of the programmers using it.

>1978 was the year C was issued officially (that's when the White
>Book was published; before that, C was used by a few hundred people at most).
>That means most programmers are younger than 10 - I know I'm old,
>but not *that* old! :-)

1) 1978: I have a 1973 C reference manual....

2) "a few hundred people at most": a non-fact.  By early 1978, there were
	500+ UNIX installations OUTSIDE Bell, and more (I think) inside;
	in those days there was certainly at least one person per machine
	that used C :-)
	"a few hundred at most": maybe this was true in 1974.
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