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From: Angelo Papenhoff <aap@papnet.eu>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] C entry keyword
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:12:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181030091259.GA44474@indra.papnet.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47BC5434-D668-48D1-AA45-361B6D1E2E3A@quintile.net>

On 30/10/18, Steve Simon wrote:
> 
> “entry” was a reserved word in K&R Ed.1,
> my personal favourite C trivia. I have never seen it used outside fortran on mainframes though.

I think PL/1 on Multics uses it, which is probably how it "got into" C.

aap

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-30 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-30  8:02 Steve Simon
2018-10-30  8:51 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-10-30  9:12 ` Angelo Papenhoff [this message]
2018-10-30 13:32   ` Paul Winalski
2018-10-30 13:56   ` Warner Losh
2018-10-30 17:53     ` Paul Winalski

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