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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: C and UNIX invented as hoax
- Date: 19 Feb 96 21:52:04 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- References: <1996Feb19.140136.1@willow>
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- In <1996Feb19.140136.1@willow> ferriom@woods.uml.edu writes:
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- > But everything other insult about 'C' and the UNIX un-operating system in
- >Garfinkel's text seems to be true.
-
- They only seem to be true, and only to the C and Unix illiterate.
- Apart from a few good points, all the rest is either personal bias or
- pure crap. The best part of the book is, by far, Dennis Ritchie's
- Anti-Foreword. Read it again.
-
- If you haven't already noticed, one of the editors is a Microsoft employee,
- another is working at Apple.
-
- >(And if the above story is false, then how did 'C' and UNIX really get
- their names?)
-
- C: CPL -> BCPL -> B -> C (for more details see the Introduction to K&R2,
- for even more details, see http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/chistory.ps)
-
- Unix: A pun on Multics, indeed.
-
- Dan
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- Dan Pop
- CERN, CN Division
- Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
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