Re: C help please - C newbie

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Asbury) wrote in
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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.

First edition K&R is circa 1978, second edition 1988.  Making them about 25 
and 15 years old, respectively.

-- 
Richard