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Probably you are well aware of this, but arguably the causation runs the other way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)#History https://en.wi

• hazeii 6y ago
  As a PDP-11 assembly programmer who migrated to C, this one has caught me out too because it does 'feel' a very natural explanation. Possibly it's because both products came from the ideas that were in circulation at the time - or maybe it's that PDP-11 assembly programmers who moved to C found it easy (given pointers with pre/post-increment/decrement addressing is baked into the instruction set).
  • kbob 6y ago
    To this day, I have a subconscious desire to use postfix increment and prefix decrement because of the PDP-11's addressing modes. "p++, --p"