John wrote: > The original C compiler was written to build Unix on PDP-11s > (Unix was the first operating system written almost entirely > in a high level language - namely C) both done by Kernighan > and Ritchie. > > Their book on the C language was the standard reference when > I was learning programming.
Yeah - me too. I still have the K&R book and the Harbison & Steele book on my bookshelf which I taught myself C from back in the day. Ah, nostalgia :-) > One of them was asked years later in the light of later > technology what they would have done differently in designing > the OS, and he said after some pause that he would have > called one of the OS API calls create rather than creat I think he did add NUL terminated strings to that list later :-) Just think of the buffer overflows that would have been avoided... Cheers, Paul. _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
