The C Vocabulary

bobl at tekgds.UUCP bobl at tekgds.UUCP
Tue Jul 19 13:00:07 AEST 1983


I wonder if Dennis Ritchie had this in mind:

				THE C VOCABULARY

	The C vocabulary was supplementary to the others and consisted
	entirely of scientific and technical terms.  These resembled
	the scientific terms in use today, and were constructed from
	the same roots, but the usual care was taken to define them
	rigidly and strip them of undesirable meanings. ... Very few
	of the C words had any currency either in everyday speech or
	in political speech.

					- George Orwell, "1984"


Bob (Only kidding, B.B.!) Lewis
tektronix!tekgds!bobl



More information about the Comp.lang.c mailing list