Keening & Railing

[woodwardiocom]

Dennis Ritchie, developer of the C programming language, passed on a few days ago, closing his final curly-brace. The influence of C on the art and science of programming cannot be overstated. I spend most of my working hours using C# and JavaScript, two languages which simply would not exist without C. C, in its simplicity and depth, simply got a lot of things right. Ritchie's legacy endures.

(News courtesy ceo.)

Comments

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

#include

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#include<stdio.h>

main()
{
printf("Goodbye Dennis");
}

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

That's int main, citizen.

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

Sorry. Copy and paste error.

#include

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Sorry. Copy and paste error.

#include<stdio.h>

int main()
{
printf("Goodbye Dennis");
}

[danceboy.livejournal.com]

Doesn't that depend what generation you're from? ISTR K&R C assumed int if you didn't specify. I don't have my copy here to check (I don't even have a current copy at work...).

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

Based both on what I recall, and a quick scan of the "Main function" article at Wikipedia, "int main" appears to be standard for C qua C.

[danceboy.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, these days. Ever since ANSI which was in what, 91? Ah, wikipedia says 90.

But a little above that, referring to K&R C, it says "a function used without any previous declaration was assumed to return type int". And I vaguely recall experimenting when I was learning C in the late 80s, and finding out just how much I could omit, and being able to omit that.

AHA! yes, scroll down and you get this:

The original version was:[16]

main()
{
    printf("hello, world\n");
}