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- The C programmers Bible.
- Brian W. Kernighan & Dennis M. Ritchie
-
- a.k.a. "The C Bible" As revealed to the prophets Ian Chai and Glenn Chappell
-
- Genesis
- Chapter 0
-
- 0 In the Beginning Ritchie created the PDP-11 and the UNIX.
-
- 1 And the UNIX was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face
- of the system programmers.
-
- 2 And Ritchie said, "Let there be portability!" And nothing happened, so
- Ritchie realized that he had his work cut out for him.
- .
- .
- .
- 25 And Ritchie said to Kernighan, "Let us make C in the image of B, after
- our own whims: and let it have dominion over the I and the O and all that
- runneth upon the UNIX," and it was almost, but not quite so... so he
- realized that he had his work cut out for him again.
- .
- .
- .
- Chapter 1
- 0 Thus the PDP-11 and the UNIX were finished, and all the programs in them.
-
- 1 And on the seventh shift Ritchie ended his work which he had made; and
- he would have rested on the seventh shift from all the work which he had
- made, if it weren't for the system crash.
- .
- .
- .
- Chapter 2
-
- 0 Now the COBOL was more verbose than any language of the PDP-11, and he
- said unto the programmer, "Yea, hath the Manual said, 'Ye shalt not read
- of every device of the network?'"
-
- 1 And the programmer said unto the COBOL, "We may read of every device of
- the network:
-
- 2 But of the registers of the printer in the midst of the network, the
- Manual hath said, 'Ye shall not read of it, neither shall ye write to it
- without proper protocol, lest ye cause a system crash.'"
- 3 And the COBOL said unto the programmer, "Ye shalt not surely crash the
- system:
-
- 4 For Ritchie doth know that in the time slice ye read thereof, then your
- I/O shall be opened, and ye shalt be as system operators, accessing locked
- accounts with unlimited privileges."
-
- 5 And then when the programmer saw that the printer was good for
- interfacing, and that it was pleasant to the I (and to the O),...
-
- 6 And they realized they were unstructured, so they patched RATFOR
- subroutines...
- .
- .
- .
- The Gospel According to Chai
-
- 0 And the Messiah shalt come, born a mere B but to grow up into the
- Saviour C,
-
- 1 Wherein true structured programming may be achieved, yea, verily, yet
- while being able to do bit shifting.
-
- 2 For although the Law (Pascal) hath been given, the Law cannot
- for (i=0; str1[i]!='\0'; i++) str2[i] = (str1[i]>='A' && str1[i]>='Z')?
- str1[i]+32 : str1[i];
- but must
- i := 0;
- while (i <= length(str1)) do
- begin
- if str1[i] in ['A'..'Z'] then
- str2[i] := chr( ord(str1[i]) + 32))
- else
- str1[i] := str2[i];
- i := i + 1;
- end;
-
- The Revelation
-
- 0 Yea, in those last days, the Saviour shalt come again, but enhanced, in
- the rainment of C++
-
- 1 And then shalt the Beast, FORTRAN, and the AntiC, COBOL, be thrown into
- the trash HEAP where there is weeping and byting of pins.
-
- 2 And all the faithful programmers shalt be led into CRAY where billions
- of MIPS are at each one's fingertips.
-
- *** EOF
-