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by: James Harris - Thu, 21 Oct 2021 19:45 UTC

Although many are aware of the document linked below ... since recent
posts I made were partly motivated by how early language designs
developed I think it's worth including this.

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

Some might question the year in the Subject. In fact, the web page says
C's development took place in the early 1970s. But I dated it to 1973 as
the document includes the following comment.

"By early 1973, the essentials of modern C were complete."

--
James Harris

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by: CP/M User - Sat, 23 Oct 2021 05:04 UTC

On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 6:45:53 AM UTC+11, James Harris wrote:
> Although many are aware of the document linked below ... since recent
> posts I made were partly motivated by how early language designs
> developed I think it's worth including this.
>
> https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
>
> Some might question the year in the Subject. In fact, the web page says
> C's development took place in the early 1970s. But I dated it to 1973 as
> the document includes the following comment.
>
> "By early 1973, the essentials of modern C were complete."
>
>
> --
> James Harris

I remember an interesting discussion about the Initial release of C and when they started appearing on CP/M Based systems on the Vintage Computer Forum:

https://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum/technical-support/vintage-computer-programming/75724-c-compilers-were-there-any-between-the-first-one-unix-and-the-cp-m-ones

Dispite what I've read about when C came out, it's mentioned that 1973 was when it became available to the public and would still predate CP/M. A Burroughs system running MCP apparantely had a C for it, I don't know when that was though :(

Wernher von Braun settled for a V-2 when he coulda had a V-8.

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