c links
Still reading Kernighan & Pike, The Practice of Programming, which I like a lot, and made me more curious about who this Kernighan guy is. So I checked his website, followed some links, and get more and more interesting information, way too much for me to actually read today. So here’s just a few links so as not to lose them:
- Brian Kernighan’s homepage, with a few links about the books, some source code, etc.
- Paper by Dennis Ritchie on the history of the C language
- Martin Richards’ homepage, a professor in computer science at Cambridge, who has links about some of C’s ancestors, and who seems to have modern applications with really old programming languages, including on a small Linux-driven gaming device. Definitely want to spend some more time studying this site sometime!
- User’s Reference to B, one of C’s prime ancestors
- The Programming Language B
- A very old C Reference Manual
- An old C Tutorial by Kernighan; this and the above are mostly incorporated in their The C Programming Language
- A technical note on calling sequences in C
- Presentation by Ritchie about ‘five little languages and how they grew’, on Bliss, Pascal, Algol 68, BCPL, C
- A proposal for variable-size arrays by Ritchie that was not implemented in the C standard
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