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C language 50th anniversary
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: DiTBho on July 22, 2022, 10:54:22 pm ---From my university experiences, I remember that gcc-v2.95 was decently usable on an HP 712 @ 100Mhz with 192 MBytes of ram and HPUX v10.20 :-//
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Oh yeah, GCC was a dog.
Think C was pretty fast considering the kind of platforms it ran on.
langwadt:
--- Quote from: mclute0 on July 22, 2022, 09:34:22 pm ---I will have to dig out my original book, The C Programming language by Brian W. Kernighan & Dennis M. Ritchie and read it all again. True heroes the modern world. Salute!
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I have two, the one I bought at uni and the one my dad used at some point. I wonder if there is a way to tell when it was printed
Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: langwadt on July 22, 2022, 11:25:46 pm ---
--- Quote from: mclute0 on July 22, 2022, 09:34:22 pm ---I will have to dig out my original book, The C Programming language by Brian W. Kernighan & Dennis M. Ritchie and read it all again. True heroes the modern world. Salute!
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I have two, the one I bought at uni and the one my dad used at some point. I wonder if there is a way to tell when it was printed
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The wiki says
--- Quote ---Publication date
1978 (1st Edition)
1988 (2nd Edition)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language
Karel:
Many times people are astonished when they see how fast my programs are.
It seems that today a lot of people use more "modern" languages which seem to be very slow,
specially in performance critical situations. Or they simply have no clue about how to write efficient software.
Somebody once wrote:
Unfortunately, after 30 years professional in software, I find the main problem is that "a bad programmer can write
bad code in any language", to paraphrase the famous saying. And most programmers are pretty bad.
Good programmers avoid unsafe practices anyway, so new and better languages don't provide the advantage that is hoped.
Ian.M:
Back in 1984, I got my first copy of K&R as the manual for Hisoft C for the ZX Spectrum mostly consisted of its divergencies from K&R, so was useless without the book!
In 1986 I got the Metacomco QL C development kit, which had a Lattice C based compiler (and a ROM 'dongle') and since then I don't think I've ever had a system I haven't been able to compile C code for, apart from some tinkerings with low end 8 bit MCUs in the days before Hi-Tech C. Heck, I've even got the Tiny C compiler installed on my Kindle!
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