On 13 Oct 2011 at 20:12, Toby Thain wrote:
Yes, I know--and have known this for at least 30 years, when Dennis
pointed it out. C started off as a sort of "cheap and dirty in leiu
of assembly" language.
I was surprised that someone would bother to formalize it. I can
well imagine that the first ANSI committe used lots of Excedrin.
I know that was the case for ANSI PL/I--a co-worker was on the
committe on that one and if you asked him how the work was going,
he'd just shake his head.
--Chuck