From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 10760 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2022 08:26:43 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 4 Feb 2022 08:26:43 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id BBB0F9CE56; Fri, 4 Feb 2022 18:26:41 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA43D951B5; Fri, 4 Feb 2022 18:26:28 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 1DA97951B5; Fri, 4 Feb 2022 18:26:26 +1000 (AEST) Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3642695192 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2022 18:26:24 +1000 (AEST) X-Envelope-From: arnold@skeeve.com Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 2148QFAS017157 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 4 Feb 2022 01:26:16 -0700 Received: (from arnold@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 2148QExq017156; Fri, 4 Feb 2022 01:26:14 -0700 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <202202040826.2148QExq017156@freefriends.org> X-Authentication-Warning: frenzy.freefriends.org: arnold set sender to arnold@skeeve.com using -f Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 01:26:14 -0700 To: silas8642@hotmail.co.uk, arnold@skeeve.com References: <202202011537.211FbYSe017204@freefriends.org> <20220201155225.5A9541FB21@orac.inputplus.co.uk> <202202020747.2127lTTh005669@freefriends.org> <8E7B6E10-E94E-4DC7-9B0A-69796C03F2D6@hotmail.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <8E7B6E10-E94E-4DC7-9B0A-69796C03F2D6@hotmail.co.uk> User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] ratfor vibe X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" silas poulson wrote: > > 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? 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