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Infrequently Asked Questions in comp.lang.c
- lutusp 14y agoA quote: "In the old days, when Microsoft first invented C, the syntax for calling functions involved more parentheses; this was after their market research indicated that most C programmers would be coming from a Lisp environment. Later, when Kernighan took over the language design (right after AT&T bought Microsoft's language technology), he decided to eliminate the parentheses, but the old form is still allowed." So Microsoft invented C and it was then bought by A. T & T.? It occurs to me this is all meant as an insider joke, but young programmers read these articles and don't necessarily know it'a a joke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language) Quote: "In computing, C (/ˈsiː/, as in the letter C) is a general-purpose programming language initially developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1973 at AT&T Bell Labs."