{"id":32582,"date":"2020-12-09T07:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T12:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=a1809a0d54527bb74626ed4e05e64155"},"modified":"2020-12-09T07:30:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T12:30:21","slug":"a-damn-stupid-thing-to-do-the-origins-of-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32582","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA damn stupid thing to do\u201d\u2014the origins of C"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n

Article note: A compact telling with the things not documented until recently included. Nice.<\/div>
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> As hard as it may be to believe, C was not simply born in wellworn paperback form. (credit: Bill Bradford<\/a>)<\/p> <\/figure>

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In one form or another, C has influenced the shape of almost every programming language developed since the 1980s. Some languages like C++, C#, and objective C are intended to be direct successors to the language, while other languages have merely adopted and adapted C’s syntax. A programmer conversant in Java, PHP, Ruby, Python or Perl will have little difficulty understanding simple C programs, and in that sense, C may be thought of almost as a lingua franca among programmers.<\/p>\n

But C did not emerge fully formed out of thin air as some programming monolith. The story of C begins in England, with a colleague of Alan Turing and a program that played checkers.<\/p>\n

God Save the King<\/h2>\n

Christopher Strachey was known as the “person who wrote perfect programs,” as noted in a long profile from the journal, Annals of the History of Computing<\/a>.<\/i> It was a reputation he acquired at the Manchester University Computing Center in 1951. Strachey ended up there, working on the school’s Ferranti Mark I computer through an old King’s College, Cambridge, connection, Alan Turing.<\/p><\/div>

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