Before you get too carried away with beating up on K&R you must remember
    the initial target (PDP-10) for the C language.

PDP-11, please.  The PDP-10 was an entirely different beast, and doesn't
match up with C at all well.  (36 bit words, not byte addressable, to start
with.  Lovely to program in assembly, but it was the mid-80s before anyone
did a credible C compiler for it.)

BillW

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