Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 01:32:56 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?) Message-ID: <20101116004143.D39988@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20101115111955.438801065754@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20101115111955.438801065754@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:29:10 -0700 Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:39:32PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> > About 2000, 2001 was when I shucked my "muuz" game/mind-machine
> > effort. It was over 10K line of C-ish code that I rehacked into
> > C++. Figured since C++ was "_the_ new language" that it was a
> > good move. Then I realized how you could spend a lifetime
> > learning C++ I backed off and kept it simple.
Deftly avoiding the whirlpool. Delphi was the similar suck from Pascal.
> 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.
Whatever that means, I'll take your word for it :)
> > 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.
Hey, didn't know I had a rare '78 first ed; ANSI not even in the index.
I confess to buying it secondhand in '94 from a likely sorry bloke, and
wonder if anyone's published a diff (ono) to the 2nd ed?
But my most dog-eared, tabbed and note-stuffed reference is Kernighan &
Plauger's Software Tools in Pascal ('81) - lovely if only for quality of
the writing and typesetting. Appropriate thread for a little heresy? :)
cheers, Ian
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