Tom Lyon ✅By popular demand, I have scanned my copy of Draft #1 of #Kernighan and #Ritchie's C Programming Language book. Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OvgKikM8vpZGxNzCjt4BM1ggBX0dlr-y #ComputerHistory #UNIX #CLang
Greg Minshall@aka_pugs i remember learning a lot fixing bugs in examples in the first printed edition. i thought, probably they were there on purpose. coming from a PL/1, PL/S, Pascal (and 360 assembler) background, the language was (and is!) so sweet.
@minshall Indeed. It could do everything I ever wanted to do in PL/I, but much more concisely.
JohnMashey@aka_pugs @minshall
And of course, C in some sense resulted from a chain of accidents, easily might not have happened, in which case its niche would have been filled by BLISS, PL.8 or some extended version of Pascal, or maybe Mesa...
http://techviser.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Mashey.IEEE_.Micro_.2022.pdf
And of course, C in some sense resulted from a chain of accidents, easily might not have happened, in which case its niche would have been filled by BLISS, PL.8 or some extended version of Pascal, or maybe Mesa...
http://techviser.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Mashey.IEEE_.Micro_.2022.pdf
Party SamDelighted to see the non-final (and commented) version of such a legendary book. It's a reminder that every project goes through these stages, and many iterations are required to get to the perfect result.
never99percent ®@aka_pugs This is great! Thank you
Adam ♿@aka_pugs and now to rescue it from Google Drive and save it for posterity on archive.org. (with permission)
@voltagex go for it.
@aka_pugs Done. Thanks for sharing this. https://archive.org/details/c-programming-language-draft-1
David 🐧@aka_pugs thanks for sharing this historical document
Karl Auerbach@aka_pugs Best into line I've heard at a gathering was "I missed fame and fortune by one letter. I invented the language B.'
Julian Andres Klode 🏳️🌈@aka_pugs has made available, to the public, unauthorized copies, of protected work.
Let's hope whoever owns the copyright doesn't hunt you down. I'm not sure anyone really knows for sure if they do after all the selling of Bell Labs, I wonder if the rights to this survived all the way to Nokia.
the roamerA glimpse at history in the making. Thanks for sharing.
Always loved the K&R (English) writing style: laconic yet rich in meaning, like a classical Roman text; Cicero or Plutarch. Really interesting to see a draft version.
Bob Davidson@aka_pugs
I learned C from essentially this book back in about 1981 at HP. We first ran HP-UX 1.0 on the old HP9836 (Motorola 68000) machine. The disk pointers got stored in RAM in the first versions, so I was rebuilding the system a lot. 😂
I learned C from essentially this book back in about 1981 at HP. We first ran HP-UX 1.0 on the old HP9836 (Motorola 68000) machine. The disk pointers got stored in RAM in the first versions, so I was rebuilding the system a lot. 😂
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek@aka_pugs Cool! Would it make sense to get a copy to @internetarchive or Bitsavers?