On 16 Sep 2006 02:57:21 -0700, in comp.lang.c , "Spiros Bousbouras"
<sp****@gmail.comwrote:
>Why isn't C proprietary ?
Given the way it was started wasn't it by default the
intellectual property of AT&T ? So how come it's
not proprietary now ?
Because a decision was taken, presumably by AT&T, to offer the
langauge definition up to ISO for standardization.
--
Mark McIntyre
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan