C and UNIX a Hoax

[Lindy Mayfield-2]

Creators of C and UNIX admit it was all along  hoax.

 

http://www.panix.com/~richgr/HOAX.pdf

 

 

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[Shawn Tan Ser Ngiap]

On Tuesday 08 July 2008 15:00:52 Lindy Mayfield wrote:
> Creators of C and UNIX admit it was all along  hoax.
> http://www.panix.com/~richgr/HOAX.pdf

Hahaha!! That's a good one!! Loved it!!

During the time that I was using PASCAL, I had always assumed that C stood
for "Cryptic" and C++ was "Additionally Cryptic".

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[John Ferrell-2]

Thank you for confirming my suspicions.
Fortunately, I discovered the "Define" compiler directive early on and have
been able to make my c code masquerade as Pascal.
I have always been thankful for the 17 lines of "white space" that the c
programmer always provides after an especially intricate c statement so the
next programmer has room to try to puzzle out what is really happening...

c!

John Ferrell    W8CCW

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing." -- Edmund Burke
http://DixieNC.US

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Subject: [OT] C and UNIX a Hoax

> Creators of C and UNIX admit it was all along  hoax.
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[Vitaliy-2]

John Ferrell wrote:
> Thank you for confirming my suspicions.
> Fortunately, I discovered the "Define" compiler directive early on and
> have
> been able to make my c code masquerade as Pascal.
> I have always been thankful for the 17 lines of "white space" that the c
> programmer always provides after an especially intricate c statement so
> the
> next programmer has room to try to puzzle out what is really happening...

Are you talking about the curly braces?



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[Lindy Mayfield-2]

That is a small part of a bigger work called _The UNIX Haters Handbook_ which is really funny (and fun).

http://www.simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf



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Subject: Re: [OT] C and UNIX a Hoax

On Tuesday 08 July 2008 15:00:52 Lindy Mayfield wrote:
> Creators of C and UNIX admit it was all along  hoax.
> http://www.panix.com/~richgr/HOAX.pdf

Hahaha!! That's a good one!! Loved it!!

During the time that I was using PASCAL, I had always assumed that C stood
for "Cryptic" and C++ was "Additionally Cryptic".

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[William "Chops" Westfield]

On Jul 10, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Lindy Mayfield wrote:

> That is a small part of a bigger work called _The UNIX Haters  
> Handbook_
> which is really funny (and fun).
>
> http://www.simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf

And there used to be a unix-haters mailing list as well.  Alas, these
date to the days when "windows" wasn't the main alternative :-(

The fight is over, the toys have won.

BillW

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[Yair Mahalalel]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:59:27PM -0700, William Chops Westfield wrote:

> The fight is over, the toys have won.

Yet hate lives on --

http://hates-software.com hosts a mailing list that maintains much of
the attitude and technical level of the original newsgroup.

Yair.

PS. The software running the site seems currently broken, but the list
is running.
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[John Ferrell-2]

That is one example.

John Ferrell    W8CCW

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing." -- Edmund Burke
http://DixieNC.US

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From: "Vitaliy" <spam@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] C and UNIX a Hoax

> John Ferrell wrote:
>> Thank you for confirming my suspicions.
>> Fortunately, I discovered the "Define" compiler directive early on and
>> have
>> been able to make my c code masquerade as Pascal.
>> I have always been thankful for the 17 lines of "white space" that the c
>> programmer always provides after an especially intricate c statement so
>> the
>> next programmer has room to try to puzzle out what is really happening...
>
> Are you talking about the curly braces?
>
>
>
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