That would have been a rather neat trick, given that Pascal predates C. Furthermore, C itself evolved rather substantially over the years, so people who mostly

That would have been a rather neat trick, given that Pascal predates C. Furthermore, C itself evolved rather substantially over the years, so people who mostly experienced the ANSI/ISO C era may not realize what an appallingly messy language it used to be. By the time the original K&R got published, the situation had improved considerably (with the exception of function prototypes), but I found the C code in 6th edition UNIX a truly hair raising read: http://www.tom-yam.or.jp/2238/src/ http://www.tom-yam.or.jp/2238/src/