On Sunday 29 August 2004 12:12 am, Stephen KÃhn wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 10:21, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > According to Dennis Ritchie (and he should know), it began on a PDP7 > > using assembly language. (See > > http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html). A very interesting > > read, particularly for those who have ever labored in the fields of R&D > > and had troubles generating interest and funding for the latest Really > > Great Idea Guaranteed to Revolutionize Civilization. > > -- cmg > > That was a mind boggling read. Awesome. So then 1969 was a good year > after all, eh?
Stephen: Well, for me it was. It was the last summer that I could go out in the sun and not burn the top of my head. (Getting closer to the topic) What I found interesting was Ritchie's reference to programming in B, the predecessor language to C. The connection between C and Unix goes back a long, long way. -- cmg
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