From: Dan Sugalski Date: 2002-09-03T03:17:24+09:00 Subject: Re: A Repeat: New Language After Ruby? At 2:46 AM +0900 9/3/02, Hal E. Fulton wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dan Sugalski" > > At 2:20 AM +0900 9/3/02, Charles Hixson wrote: >> >(reasonable, there was a macro assembler created for the 6800 that >included >> >most of the features of C). >> >> Another Urban Legend strikes! :) >> >> C is older than the 6800, by rather a lot. (C predates >> microprocessors in general, IIRC, unless you consider the original >> intel 4004 a microprocessor) > >Hmm. He didn't say that C was derived from it, only >that it had most of C's functionality. In fact, I >think he could be saying that the macro assembler >mimicked C. D'oh! I misread that. I've seen so many "C is really X assembly language" comments through the years I've gotten too quick on the draw. Sorry, Chris. > > C's generally considered a PDP-11 assembly, but K&R have denied that. > >I still feel that there were influences there. I've used >PDP-11 assembly, and actually liked it. :) Do they >totally deny any influences? Depends on when you ask, I think. :) > > --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- >> Dan Sugalski even samurai >> dan@sidhe.org have teddy bears and even >> teddy bears get drunk > >I've always wondered what this tag means and/or where it >originates. Care to elaborate? On- or offline. That? Found it, as a quatrain, in an old BSD fortune file, and I abused it into haiku form, more or less. (Yeah, I know it doesn't completely conform--feel free to insert appropriate "ignorant gaijin" comments here :) I presume it came originally from the fevered and caffeine addled brain of a CS undergrad somewhere. -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai dan@sidhe.org have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk