From: a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com (A. P. Garcia)
Subject: [TUHS] why the leading under score added to function names?
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:47:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFCBnZt5J_7y86z3UWj_JxwAPb_+T2GfhDJVFKkoQYaxb-b05Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202230752140.62608@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
>
> > This is interesting. It shows that (apparently) early on, assembler was
> > viewed as the primary programming language.
>
> Well, C didn't exactly spring from Zeus's brow :-) A good chunk of the
> C library was in assembler, as were quite a number of programs.
>
relevant:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/hist.html
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2012-02-22 19:17 arnold
2012-02-22 21:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2012-02-22 22:47 ` A. P. Garcia [this message]
2012-02-23 4:30 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2012-02-25 18:45 ` Random832
2012-02-25 19:24 ` Steve Nickolas
2012-02-25 20:39 ` John Cowan
2012-02-25 22:15 ` Random832
2012-02-26 13:28 ` Ronald Natalie
2012-02-27 1:30 ` random832
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2012-02-20 20:52 arnold
2012-02-20 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2012-02-21 0:34 ` Brantley Coile
2012-02-21 2:50 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-21 3:33 ` John Cowan
2012-02-21 3:41 ` Steve Nickolas
2012-02-21 18:18 ` ron
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