Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!rutgers!cbmvax!snark!eric From: eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: String lengths Message-ID: Date: 8 Feb 89 01:37:00 GMT References: <8876@alice.uucp> <8442@aw.sei.cmu.edu> Organization: Justified Ancients of Muammu Lines: 21 In article <8442@aw.sei.cmu.edu>, firth@bd.sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes: > In article <8876@alice.UUCP> dmr@alice.UUCP writes: > >The history of this convention and of the general array scheme had little > >to do with the PDP-11; it was inherited from BCPL and B. > > A correction here: the C scheme was NOT inherited from BCPL. I've seen bonehead idiocy on the net before, but this tops it all -- this takes the cut-glass flyswatter. Mr. Firth, do you *read* what you're replying to before you pontificate? Didn't the name `Dennis Ritchie' register in whatever soggy lump of excrement you're using as a central nervous system? Do you realize that the person you just incorrectly `corrected' on a point of C's intellectual antecedents is the *inventor of C himself*!?! Sheesh. No *wonder* Dennis doesn't post more often. Next time dmr posts something, I suggest you shut up and listen. Respectfully. -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) Email: eric@snark.uu.net CompuServe: [72037,2306] Post: 22 S. Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718