4 Feb
2022
4 Feb
'22
2:26 p.m.
silas poulson <silas8642(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
No, he has not. I suspect it would have looked like the ratfor code
but with real data structures and recursion, and without the need to
build the standard I/O library (getc, putc, etc.).
Arnold
FWIW, Brian
has told me more than once that he wishes they'd done
“Software Tools In C" instead of in Pascal, and that the Pascal book
was a failure to read the market correctly.
Ah, but then we wouldn’t have had his wonderful *Why Pascal* paper!
Has Brian ever said what would’ve been different if a C version had
been written?