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David Thompson wrote:
> I'm not sure which papers you mean. The most definitive I've seen is
> Ritchie's for ACM's 2nd conference on the History of Programming
> Languages (abbreviated HOPL2) in 1993 which explains carefully that
> the replacement of a pointer (to an actual array) with an actual array
> (that converts to a pointer) was one of the changes that made the
> first "Embryonic" C a different language from B and even "New B".

Funny enough is that Go (the C-like language made by Ken Thompson) again 
has real arrays and even slices (this is something that you can expand 
up to the array limits it is inside), passed as addr+len (and in case of 
a slice as a pair of addr+len, one the bounds, one the actual slice).

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Bernd Paysan
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