[ConservativeInPA]

Why didn’t Sun Microsystems get sued for plagiarizing C++? Why didn’t Bell Labs get sued for plagiarizing C? Why didn’t the English get sued for plagiarizing, Latin, French, German, and Norse?

Hideously stupid questions.

[Red Badger]

Why didn’t Biden get fired for plagiarizing a British Pol’s speech?.....................

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Why didn’t Bell Labs get sued for plagiarizing C?

I thought the C Programming language originated from Bell Labs ...

If memory serves me right, C was created by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in the early 1970s as an augmented version of Ken Thompson’s B programming language.

Another Bell Labs employee, Brian Kernighan, had written the first C tutorial, and he persuaded Ritchie to coauthor a book on the language. Kernighan would write most of the book’s “expository” material, and Ritchie’s reference manual became its appendices.

I still have the classic that they wrote sitting on my shelf : The C Programming Language

[BikerJoe]

Why didn’t Sun Microsystems get sued for plagiarizing C++? Why didn’t Bell Labs get sued for plagiarizing C?

And let's not forget Apple and Xerox PARC...

[cymbeline]

“Why didn’t Sun Microsystems get sued for plagiarizing C++?”

I’m not interested in the plagiarizing issue but just wasn’t aware of multiple flavors of C++.

Are there flavors that don’t adhere exactly to the ISO C++ specification? I use C++ in the MBED world.