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> I suspect that he [Dennis Ritchie] invented a syntax, wrote code for it, which turned out to be more complicated than he had expected. And that was eventually
by jaybosamiya 11y ago
> I suspect that he [Dennis Ritchie] invented a syntax, wrote code for it, which turned out to be more complicated than he had expected. And that was eventually standardized by the ANSI committee. It's hard to implement a standardized language because you have to get everything right. It's rather easy to write your own toy language.
Love those lines
- nickpsecurity 11y agoIt's actually a clone of BCPL, which invented keywords & "programmer in charge philosophy." They ported it to PDP's with a few changes for UNIX. Standards came later. Specific details every step of the way are here: http://pastebin.com/UAQaWuWG http://pastebin.com/UAQaWuWG
- agumonkey 11y agoThat vimeo talk was rich. ps: https://vimeo.com/132192250 https://vimeo.com/132192250
- nickpsecurity 11y agoIt's in my references.
- agumonkey 11y agoI just wanted to put it upfront rather than a link at the bottom.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoIt's all good. Makes sense. Just making sure one of us didn't overlook it in the references.
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