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From: wobblygong@gmail.com (Wesley Parish)
Subject: [TUHS] origin of C header files
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 21:26:25 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACNPpeYw3maUqXr8NxotW9FZMjhJmm-K9kEv2ma6SytiQB=1cg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi

I've just had an interesting experience, explaining C header files to
a nephew programmer who didn't understand them. I pointed him in the
direction of Minix as an example of a small well-engineered system
which would display their use.

Which raised the question: when did header files come into use? Who
was the first to use header files to store common system-wide or
application-wide data definitions? Was it used in any languages prior
to C?

Thanks

Wesley Parish


             reply	other threads:[~2017-12-29  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-29  8:26 Wesley Parish [this message]
2017-12-29 10:58 ` Nigel Williams
2017-12-29 19:28 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-29 20:31   ` Clem Cole
2017-12-30  1:06     ` Steve Johnson
2017-12-30  1:52       ` Paul Winalski
2018-01-23  4:27         ` Steve Johnson
2017-12-31  2:32 Doug McIlroy
2018-01-12  8:44 Lars Brinkhoff

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