Re: Dead Batteries
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- Subject: Re: Dead Batteries
- From: Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 20:25:43 +0100
On 05/01/2020 17:15, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
On a related note, many years ago I read something about the success of
C (I can't recall exactly where or who wrote it, but it wasn't a
uninfluential author, IIRC).
Perhaps this?
Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language
by Brian W. Kernighan
https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html
Thanks Luiz, very interesting reading!
Although some of the content resounded with my brain, I'm almost sure I
had never read it before.
It is quite an old article, and the one I remember vaguely was something
perhaps shorter and a bit more recent. I'm rather sure it was something
written in the 90s, when many successful implementations of Pascal were
widespread.
I suspect the author did actually read the article from Kerninghan,
since some of the ideas are in this latter's article as well (bad I/O
model of Pascal, ability of separate compilation of C).
But I also remember the author stressed that one of the key point of C
success was the availability of a standardized library that was
separated from the the core language (in particular the I/O facilities).
I might have read it around 2002/2003, when I was attending a PhD course
in SW engineering that I never completed. But I'm not sure.
Thanks anyway.
-- Lorenzo