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> I'm glad that you qualified it with "for the time"; I've used it, and
> calling it a "C compiler" was a bit of a stretch[*].  Later on I bought
> the Hi-Tech C compiler, and it was full ANSI, with function prototypes
> etc.
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Hmm. K&R publication date was February 1978.  BDS C was released in August
1979.  So it was certainly C as known at that time. X3J11 was convened in
1983 and published in 1985. Doesn't seem like a good comparison.

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