[aklug] Re: C: the early days

I remember ordering Kernighan and Ritchie's book on C from a bookstore that
used to be in that mall in the basment of the Penny's parking garage when
it first came out about the time you're referring to.
Went down to pick it up when they called me. Got down there and what they'd
gotten me was a book on Pascal. Was suppoed to go back down a couple of day
later when the manager would be back from a trip or something. Next thing I
knew, the store closed up shop. Never did get my book. Paid for it in
advance too.

Too bad too. I hear those books are something of collector's items now.

Wasn't a fan of Pascal either. It is a structered language, which I liked,
but it was all interpretive. I was into the fully compiling languages like
Assembly, Fortan, & PL/1.

Jim G
On Jan 8, 2012 1:35 AM, "Christopher Howard" <
christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:

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> Kind of interesting: found an old book on my shelf (1987): "C: A
> Reference Manual (Harbison, Steel). Evidently written while ANSI C was
> still in "draft proposed" status. Funny quote:
>
> "Although C tutorials abound, there are no detailed descriptions of
> the current C language."
>
> Hard to imagine that while reading this 550 page ISO/IEC 9899 Draft. :D
>
> The introduction to the book provides separate compiling examples for
> UNIX systems and for DEC VAX-11, running VMS (whatever that is...)
>
> - --
> frigidcode.com
> theologia.indicium.us
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Received on Sun Jan 8 02:08:45 2012