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    From James Harris@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 21 20:45:51 2021
    Although many are aware of the document linked below ... since recent
    posts I made were partly motivated by how early language designs
    developed I think it's worth including this.

    https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

    Some might question the year in the Subject. In fact, the web page says
    C's development took place in the early 1970s. But I dated it to 1973 as
    the document includes the following comment.

    "By early 1973, the essentials of modern C were complete."


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    James Harris

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  • From CP/M User@21:1/5 to James Harris on Fri Oct 22 22:04:14 2021
    On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 6:45:53 AM UTC+11, James Harris wrote:
    Although many are aware of the document linked below ... since recent
    posts I made were partly motivated by how early language designs
    developed I think it's worth including this.

    https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

    Some might question the year in the Subject. In fact, the web page says
    C's development took place in the early 1970s. But I dated it to 1973 as
    the document includes the following comment.

    "By early 1973, the essentials of modern C were complete."


    --
    James Harris

    I remember an interesting discussion about the Initial release of C and when they started appearing on CP/M Based systems on the Vintage Computer Forum:

    https://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum/technical-support/vintage-computer-programming/75724-c-compilers-were-there-any-between-the-first-one-unix-and-the-cp-m-ones

    Dispite what I've read about when C came out, it's mentioned that 1973 was when it became available to the public and would still predate CP/M. A Burroughs system running MCP apparantely had a C for it, I don't know when that was though :(

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