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Message: [QUOTE="Richard Heathfield, post: 2430500"] Mabden said: Colossus: Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England. Designed by Max Newman (not John von Neumann!), an Englishman, and built by Tommy Flowers, an Englishman, over a period of ten months, finally delivering it on 8 Dec 1943, over a year before ENIAC. Ignoring the dictionary, then, and focusing only on non-dictionary books within easy reach of my desk, I count seven written in England, six written in the USA, and two written in other European countries. Why are you excluding the software I use that I wrote myself? Most of the software I use, I wrote myself. And the software I use that I did not write myself (such as this newsreader) invariably makes me want to write my own version. comp.lang.c is an international newsgroup, and many (although by no means all) of its most valued contributors are from non-US countries - notably England, Holland, and Switzerland. [/QUOTE]