Steve Gray wrote: << Isn't Kernighan one of the designers of C? Or am I thinking of Unix? If it's C, that name probably came from the mark they got for it in compiler class. I hated programming in it, especially after using a greatly superior language back in the 1970's.

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I think Dennis Ritchie gets full credit for the (original) C language. I found it definitely harder to learn than Fortran or Pascal, but once I caught on, I loved it. (I worked for a while at AT&T Labs (just as & after AT&T spun off Lucent). An odd thing is that, even though Stroustrup had invented C++ there 18 years earlier -- and still worked in the same building -- C++ had never caught on among the hardcore programmer types there; it remained a C culture.) --Dan _____________________________________________________________________ "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that certain je ne sais quoi." --Peter Schickele