1. C Through the Mists of Time
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
—Dennis Ritchie
the prehistory of C...the golden rule for compiler-writers...early experiences with C...the standard I/O library and C preprocessor...K&R C...the present day: ANSI C...it’s nice, but is it standard?...the structure of the ANSI C standard...reading the ANSI C standard forfun, pleasure, and profit...how quiet is a “quiet change”?...some lightrelief—the implementation-defined effects of pragmas
The Prehistory of C
The story of C begins, paradoxically, with a failure. In 1969 the great Multics project—a joint venture between General Electric, MIT, and Bell Laboratories to build an operating system—was clearly in trouble. It was not only failing to deliver ...
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