25 Aug
2021
25 Aug
'21
2:10 p.m.
On 08/25/2021 2:23 PM Van Snyder via cctalk <cctalk
at classiccmp.org> wrote:
The C language appears to have been designed as a high-level assembler
for machines like the PDP-11, which first appeared ca 1970. At least
that's what the Wikipedioa article about the B language appears to say.
Dennis Richie's "History of C" explains why much of that can't possibly
be true:
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
Will
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking
about.
John von Neumann