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From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Question: stdio - Who invented and ...
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 09:46:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2ODSn9UTSjbgCWR_DBbXc+KF9UDLuxnAGD27VGSNCYXvQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202003231032.02NAWY4v022713@freefriends.org>

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 6:33 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

> Ed Bradford <egbegb2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-23 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-23 10:18 Ed Bradford
2020-03-23 10:32 ` arnold
2020-03-23 13:46   ` Clem Cole [this message]
2020-03-23 13:59     ` arnold
2020-03-23 14:24       ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2020-03-23 14:45         ` Clem Cole
2020-03-23 18:47         ` Richard Salz
2020-03-23 19:22           ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2020-03-23 21:38     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-24  2:02     ` Greg A. Woods
2020-05-11  1:00       ` scj

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