From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3AE979D0.69D584F2@arl.army.mil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200104261917.f3QJHlG03409@ducky.net>, <02a901c0ceab$b8286b40$e8b7c6d4@SOMA> Subject: Re: [9fans] the declaration of main() Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:41:17 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 949a61b6-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Boyd Roberts wrote: > > C didn't really become widely used until after the 7th edition... > eh? what was 6th ed written in? I think the fellow's point was that it wasn't *widely* used, meaning outside the Bell system. Publication of K&R's book was instrumental in gaining it a wider user base.