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I heard a story that the original indentation style that K&R wanted to use was the same as Allman, but then the printers chose to do the current K&R style to sa
by jv22222 11y ago
I heard a story that the original indentation style that K&R wanted to use was the same as Allman, but then the printers chose to do the current K&R style to save paper.
Does any one know if that's true, or just an urban legend?
- enf 11y agoThe book was typeset by the authors, so it seems unlikely. K&R style is clearly in evidence in source code from 1973 such as https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Research-V3/sys/ken/main.c https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...