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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] early cc variable and function names
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 10:11:30 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1410191010521.27395@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C23D45B6-2397-47D0-B1A7-04F989B37608@ronnatalie.com>

On Sat, 18 Oct 2014, Ron Natalie wrote:

> Amusingly an early IBM 370 compiler omitted prepending the underscore 
> which lead to hilarity when you declared variables called things like 
> R15.

Holy snot!

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Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU)
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-18 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-18 10:32 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-18 23:03 ` Ron Natalie
2014-10-18 23:11   ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-10-17 16:11 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-17  2:29 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-17  2:40 ` John Cowan
2014-10-17  2:52   ` Larry McVoy
2014-10-17  3:46     ` John Cowan
2014-10-17  3:54       ` Larry McVoy
2014-10-17 19:41       ` Clem Cole
2014-10-17 20:37     ` random832
2014-10-17 20:42       ` Larry McVoy
2014-10-17  1:51 Mark Longridge
2014-10-17  2:20 ` Milo Velimirovic
2014-10-17  2:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-10-17 13:35   ` random832
2014-10-17 13:44     ` Warner Losh
2014-10-17 14:07       ` arnold
2014-10-17 14:22         ` Milo Velimirović
2014-10-17 19:29         ` random832
2014-10-18  7:25 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey

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