The History of C

I wrote my ‘hello world’ in C. Around 8 years back, as a mechanical engineering student. Since then I have spent 3 years as a hard core programmer in SQL/PLSQL and java. I have written lot of code in php/mysql. Funny thing is I have earned handsomely through the programmes writeen in these languages. All that C ever gave me was a prize from azeolots (”A white cap that is still with me”). But the fact is nothing excites me as much as the prospect of writing code in C. Sadly I do not get much chance of working on C nowadays.

Still was going through some articles about C and chanced upon this article on Dennis Ritchie’s homepage. Thought that would put it up here for all the diwanas of C. Happy Reading

Btw if any of you know of a “I Love C” group on orkut, please let me know.

Topics: Softwares

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Some cool recursive acronyms !

Just came across these acronyms … mostly names of open source softwares…but there’s something special in them … they are recursive !!! some famous recursive acronyms are

1. GNU - GNU is Not Unix. (Software collection)

2. Cygnus - Cygnus Your GNU Support. ( A Software company)

3. EINE - EINE Is Not EMACS. (A text editor)

4. ZWEI - ZWEI Was EINE Initially. (Another text editor)

5. LIAR - LIAR Imitates Apply Recursively. (A scheme compiler)

6. WINE - WINE Is Not Emulator. (A windows emulator(like) for Linux)

7. EMACS - EMACS Makes A Computer Slow. (A famous text editor written by RMS).

8. XINU - XINU is not Unix.

9. PHP - PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. ( Server side web scripting language)

10. LAME - LAME Ain’t an MP3 Encoder.

One famous real world, non-technical example (We have all heard it but most of us don’t know it’s an acronym) is VISA.
VISA stands for VISA International Service Association.

I hope it was interesting.

Topics: Humour, Resources, Uncategorized

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YouTube Banned in Pakistan

Pakistan’s government has banned access to the video-clip website YouTube because of anti-Islamic movies posted on the site, an official said yesterday.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority told the country’s 70 internet service providers that the popular website would be blocked until further notice.

However The News was speculating that the youtube.com blackout was connected to some other videos that had been uploaded to the site on Thursday. These videos implicated a certain political party in “election rigging” and showed party activists stamping ballot papers en masse.

Results from Google News Here

Topics: News

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