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I first encountered the word in the excellent book, Expert C Programming, by Peter van der Linden, who explained that declarations in C are read boustrophedonic

I first encountered the word in the excellent book, Expert C Programming, by Peter van der Linden, who explained that declarations in C are read boustrophedonically.

morsch 9y ago
In C++, on the other hand, they're read stroustruphedonically.
3131s 9y ago
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