“A damn stupid thing to do”–the origins of C

• CBofN

  8 87 10.0 C

  Source code from the book "The Computational Beauty of Nature"

On C, compilers in the 90's sucked up a bit, and the code wasn't much better.

Consider this:

https://github.com/gwf/CBofN

This code crashed CWM under OpenBSD 7.2, but it worked under FVWM.

• if-then-else

  8 344 0.0

  !!Con West 2019 talk

There is a neat history of the early syntax of conditional expressions here https://github.com/e-n-f/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-el... titled “if-then-else had to be invented”. It seems “else” originated in Algol 60 as a hasty translation from German. The CPL project started in the early 1960s when it was not yet certain that Algol-style block structure and keywords would become the common basis of most programming languages.

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