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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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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-22 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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