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From: seibel@cgl.ucsf.edu (George Seibel)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: using (ugh!  yetch!) assembler
Message-ID: <11078@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
Date: 10 Aug 88 06:06:40 GMT
References: <37406@linus.UUCP> <33@taux02.UUCP> <2704@winchester.mips.COM>
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Reply-To: seibel@hegel.mmwb.ucsf.edu.UUCP (George Seibel)
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In article <2704@winchester.mips.COM> mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) writes:
|In article <33@taux02.UUCP> amos@taux02.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
|>In article <37406@linus.UUCP> munck@faron.UUCP (Robert Munck) writes:
|>>C is probably the only computer language that's
|>>older than most of the programmers using it.
|
|>1978 was the year C was issued officially (that's when the White
|>Book was published; before that, C was used by a few hundred people at most).
|>That means most programmers are younger than 10 - I know I'm old,
|>but not *that* old! :-)
|
|1) 1978: I have a 1973 C reference manual....

OH!  So most C programmers are under *fifteen*...  well, that explains the
skateboards.