Lane's post prompted me to seek out my tattered old copy of K&R's "The C
Programming Language" (Copyright 1978 by Bell Telephone Laboratories,
Incorporated).

From the Preface :-

'C is not a "very high level" language, nor a "big" one, and is not
specialized to any particular area of application.'

They knew, they knew...

And the code that started it all (I think):-

main()
{
        printf("hello, world\n");
}


Regards

Neil


-----Original Message-----
From: Lane Rollins [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 02 November 2000 09:51
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: And in defense of the tried and true


C is older then that... My old tattered K&R C book is copyrighted in 1978.
My first intro to C was probably a year before then, when I belonged to the
explorer post at Tektronix.

-Lane

on 11/2/00 11:38 AM, Stigers, Greg [And] at [log in to unmask]
wrote:

> X-no-Archive:yes
> And perl, python and C are how old? IIRC, C which came out in 1981, is the
> oldest, and took some time to catch on. I wonder how he feels about COBOL?
>
> Thanks for sharing this, Ted.
>
> Greg Stigers
> http://www.cgiusa.com
> it's deja vu all over again