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21 april 2025

Yesterday I received Unix Internals: The New Frontiers by Uresh Vahalia. The book was written in 1996 -- so Linux is not mentioned.

Interesting trivia learned from this book is that C evolved from the earlier language called BCPL [Rich 82], later known as B, an interpretative language that C replaced as it was better.

[Rich 82] Richards, M. and Whitby-Strevens, C., BCPL: The Language and Its Compiler, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1982.