Re: bunch of pedants

"Keith Thompson" <kst-u@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> or to mention that it was
> published 30 years ago.

So, the C language was standardized 22 years ago... 1986.

"Work on the first official C standard began in 1983 under the auspices of
the X3J11 ANSI committee. The major functional additions to the language
were settled by the end of 1986, at which point it became common for
programmers to distinguish between 'K&R C' and 'ANSI C'. ... While the
core
of ANSI C was settled early, arguments over the contents of the standard
libraries dragged on for years."
- "The Art of Unix Programming", Chapter 17 "Evolution of C", Eric S.
Raymond

By mentioning the date as if it makes the information irrelevant, aren't
you
implying the eight years between the two made a difference in the way C
was
being implemented on the von Neumann microprocessors and cpu's of the era?
Aren't you implying that some processor between 1978 and 1986 exists for
which there is an ANSI compliant C compiler which can't implement a stack
1)
even though C was standardized from working C implementations and 2) even
though it is requirement of C to be able to implement contiguous sequences
of objects?  A call stack is just a contiguous sequence of many procedure
activation records or stack frames, i.e., an array.


Rod Pemberton