From: Jerry Coffin
JC>  You started by saying that you were surprised to learn that
JC>  Brian Kernighan didn't help invent C.  Now you say that any
JC>  book that didn't tell you this had to be superficial and
JC>  probably poorly researched.  The conclusion seems to be
JC>  inevitable: you lack any real knowledge of C, since all of
JC>  the books you're read on it are superficial and poorly
JC>  researched.

    Ooh...  Did you ever do that thing where you swing the bat and
 it cracks and you get that shiver right up your arms to the elbow?
 In the interest of providing some light upon the topic, I bring
 you Herbert Schildt, a name long known in the C_ECHO, whose book,
 C_The_Complete_Reference rests now upon my lap.  On page four
 in the Origins of C portion of Chapter One, An Overview of C, he
 states, "C was invented and first implemented by Dennis Ritchie
 on a DEC PDP-11 that used the Unix operating system."  This may
 be the first time I have heard a Schildt book being described as
 indepth and well researched.  If you stand here long enough,
 the world will pass you by, and you will see everything.  :)

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>  'There is little to discover,' he said when he returned.

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