From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 00:35:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F5531065673 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:35:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com (cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.54.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 655CF8FC1E for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:35:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 28138 invoked by uid 0); 15 Nov 2010 00:35:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 15 Nov 2010 00:35:28 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=bVVTxRDLCTlPPbSQA5kHj5u1THdvcgCqS13UhrMEpEkZ/nFl1bY/JaD2UvleRfxMy8cJKyZK+cpwolRUyIRpzh4z6FWGqFsYxkEdZSBZnRIIVKsEjAH/sBlQ3jOw3XwA; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PHn2d-00073R-OF for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:35:28 -0700 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:29:10 -0700 Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:29:10 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101115002910.GA51179@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201011132032.oADKW4FG025920@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20101113220559.GE45921@guilt.hydra> <4cdfa533.KmbS7pHvQ3h+K92G%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20101114204450.GA9247@thought.org> <20101114214141.GD50560@guilt.hydra> <20101114223932.GA10006@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101114223932.GA10006@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:35:29 -0000 --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:39:32PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: >=20 > About 2000, 2001 was when I shucked my "muuz" game/mind-machine=20 > effort. It was over 10K line of C-ish code that I rehacked into=20 > C++. Figured since C++ was "_the_ new language" that it was a=20 > good move. Then I realized how you could spend a lifetime > learning C++ I backed off and kept it simple. Hardly new. It hasn't been the Next Big Thing since the '80s. Java was the Next Big Thing in the '90s. We don't exactly have a new Next Big Thing for the '00s, from what I can see -- and maybe that's a good thing. Agile development is the Next Big Thing for development methodologies, but that's a somewhat separate issue. >=20 > Yeah, it's on amazon.com, but "my bible" {seriously!} is good > enough. Dog-earned and coffee-stained; but it's the same as the > 2nd Ed. The 2nd is ANSI-ified, IIRC. That's correct -- 2nd Ed is the ANSI C version of basically the same text. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkzgftYACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUQ6gCgq5AJTMPDQS/7+jIEtJ/nbRFJ YV4AoMwp9RBoSfK/oW2Hfpw5USqkLPDd =5IU6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8--