C array follies 1
Barry Shein
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Mon Sep 9 12:31:25 AEST 1985
>From: gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
>Subject: Re: C array follies 1
>
>Maybe language "D" can fix all C's mistakes (ha). Meanwhile we just
>have to learn to cope with them.
"The C Programming Language", Ritchie et al, BSTJ V57, No. 6, Part 2, 1978,
page 2019:
"...C would probably have to be left as is, and a
totally now language developed. We leave it to the
reader to speculate whether it should be called
D or P." (very last sentence in the article.)
For your amusement.
-Barry Shein, Boston University
Spoiler:
To prevent 10**27 'why P?'s: first BCPL, then B, then C...(P ... L...)
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