Quote #147
B can be thought of as C without types; more accurately, it is BCPL squeezed
into 8K bytes of memory and filtered through Thompson's brain.
-- Dennis Ritchie
B can be thought of as C without types; more accurately, it is BCPL squeezed
into 8K bytes of memory and filtered through Thompson's brain.
-- Dennis Ritchie
Related:
- Quote #148
"C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success."
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Dennis M. Ritchie... - BCPL -> B -> C !!!
No wonder C is so cryptic... - C n.
1. The third letter of the English alphabet.
2. ASCII 1000011. 3. The name of a programming... - The C committee took something that wasn't broken, and tidied it up without
breaking it.
Dennis Ritchie (dmr@alice.UUCP), about ANSI C standard... - C: n. 1. The third letter of the English alphabet. 2.
ASCII 1000011. 3. The name of a programming language... - As in certain cults it is possible to
kill a process if you know its true name.
Ken Thompson and Dennis M.... - Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.
Ken Thompson, quoted by Dennis... - If you fill a vacuum, it can still suck.
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Dennis...
