[COFF] [TUHS] Re: Minimum Array Sizes in 16 bit C (was Maximum)

Dan Cross crossd at gmail.com
Wed Nov 27 18:50:41 AEST 2024


On Tue, Nov 26, 2024, 4:37 PM Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu>
wrote:

> > Curiously, Robert Martin's in the acknowledgements for K&R
> > (I forget which edition). I guess he read an early draft?
>
> I didn't find Robert Martin in the long list of acknowledgements
> in the preface to the second edition. But any such acknowledgement
> would certainly be to Bob Martin, a savvy Bell Labs executive whose
> advice was always welcome. He is acknowledged in Aho and
> Ullman's "Theory of Parsing, Translation, and Compiling", but not
> in the Dragon Book.  I have never seen a Robert Martin book on
> programming; I probably would have were it written by Bob.
>

Sorry, I mis-wrote. I meant to say Allen Holub was in the K&R
acknowledgements; not Martin.

        - Dan C.
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