27 Feb
2015
27 Feb
'15
12:03 p.m.
On 02/27/2015 11:52 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Chuck Guzis
<cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Well, as much as I hate using WikiP as a reference, there is this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29#History
--Chuck
It seems to me to be very strange that today
we're coding in a language that
was developed for a PDP-11 minicomputer.
Developed for the PDP-7, actually. Contrary to popular belief, the
"++" and "--" operators were NOT the result of the PDP-11 addressing
modes.