C trivia - was Re: Dennis Ritchie has died

On 20 October 2011 23:45, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote: :?D I'd forgotten that! IIRC, the rumour was that it was written by a student on a summer work-experience posting. It was considered good enough and included. Also, they lost the source code, so it couldn't be readily fixed, and in the end had to be completely rewritten by someone costing much more money. Also see Windows Write - again, went pretty much unchanged through about 5 or 6 releases of Windows because they'd lost the source. It was rewritten and replaced by Wordpad. -- Liam Proven ? Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lproven at gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884 ? Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven ? MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? ICQ: 73187508