Re: C help please - C newbie

"Ken Asbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hans-Bernhard Broeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Chris Hills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <snip>
> > > I agree. BUT K&R is NOT "standard C". It was 25 years and many
standards
> > > ago but not now.
> >
> > Pardon the French, Chris, but that's nonsense and you know it.  It's
> > irresponsible to artificially limit your consideration of K&R to the
> > first edition (the other is not 25 years, but 15 years old), which has
> > not been printed or sold for 15 years now.
> >
>
> Not to quibble, but my recollection has a copy of K&R in my
> hands before 1985, probably 1982-3, and I don't think it was
> new then.  K&R were doing their stuff on PDP-11s that I saw
> running up in Maynard, MA, in '73-4, but I was doing OEM
> support of 12-bit machines and have no idea how far along
> they were at that point.
>
> <snip>
>
> Note to the OP:  Seems like you've hit on a "religious" issue.
> Who'da thunk it?

no kidding.

-bryan



>
> Regards,
> Ken Asbury