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Originally, in 1971, pointer declarations were written in the style int ip[];, which enabled most existing B code to continue to work in C.
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A fossil from this era survives even in modern C/C++ declarations of function arguments (see next slide.)
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Unix is rewritten in C in 1973 on DEC PDP-11 computer
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In 1978, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie wrote "The C Programming Language" book (K&R)
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Dennis Ritchie, image courtesy of Computer History Museum, computerhistory.org/
