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