23 Mar
2020
23 Mar
'20
7:46 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 6:33 AM <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
Ed Bradford <egbegb2(a)gmail.com> wrote:
At this risk of putting too fine a point on it, the stdio library was
released in the wild before V7 or UNIX/TS *et al.*
To answer Ed's question, it came out of Research, but first as part of the
typesetter support - *i.e.* 'Typesetter C', which was on V6 and PWB
1.0 [the new troff replacement was being written by Brian] . The C
Language and associated libraries in the 'Typesetter C' release maps to the
compiler described in the original K&R book. Dennis explains this in his
paper: The Development of the C Language
<https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html>.
*"Lesk wrote a `portable I/O package' [Lesk 72] that was later reworked to
become the C `standard I/O' routines. In 1978 Brian Kernighan and I
published The C Programming Language [Kernighan 78]. "*
I have the Lesk paper, as PDF (which I have not idea where I obtained). I
did a quick google search and could not find it for download, so if you are
interested, send me an e-mail offline and I'll pass you a copy.
I've forgotten when 'enum' and 'void' got added (which are not in
the white
book - Steve Johnson or Doug may remember). But, I think they were in the
V7 compiler, and not Typesetter C.
Clem
I've forgotten who created stdio, USG or the
research group. Can any of
the
youthful BTL folks of the 1970's refresh my
mind.
It was part of V7. I think DMR gets most of the credit.