Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!sun!chiba!khb From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: String lengths Message-ID: <88853@sun.uucp> Date: 8 Feb 89 09:40:40 GMT References: <8876@alice.uucp> <8442@aw.sei.cmu.edu> <88850@sun.uucp> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 37 In article <88850@sun.uucp> lm@sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes: >In article eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) writes: >$In article <8442@aw.sei.cmu.edu>, firth@bd.sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes: >$> 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. >$ >$I've seen bonehead idiocy on the net before, ... >$before you pontificate? Didn't the name `Dennis Ritchie' ... >$ >$Next time dmr posts something, I suggest you shut up and listen. Respectfully. >Is everyone else laughing as hard as I am? Hopefully. It is quite amusing. > >... >for Dennis Ritchie or anyone else besides myself, I'd suspect that he'd be the >last person that would want you to "shut up and listen". The whole point of >this newsgroup, and research in general, is to question the obvious, point out >the incorrect. It's called learning. Blind faith is called religion and has >no place in science. In general, I agree with Mr. McV. This is, however, a special case. The question is (to paraphrase) "What did the inventors of C think about?" The Principal Inventor sez "bliff". Mr Poster sez "no it was boff". I do not think it fair to characterize "boff" as a valid hypothesis, unless the PI had died, and left no notes, or ambigous ones. Since the PI is very much alive, and has spoken, contradicting him is a bit out of _my_ definition of scientific inquiry. Keith H. Bierman It's Not My Fault ---- I Voted for Bill & Opus