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Interesting timing. I just read https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1728174 https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1728174 due to r/programming https:/
by np_tedious 6y ago
Interesting timing. I just read https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1728174 https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1728174 due to r/programming https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kbs11a/a_damn_stupid_thing_to_dothe_origins_of_c https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kbs11a/a_damn_... yesterday.
Apparently Cambridge Programming Language (more or less a failed language that became proto-C) designer Christopher Strachey had some misgivings about this usage of "else".
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- enf 6y agoLooks like this article was the source of the Twitter thread https://twitter.com/geoffwozniak/status/1337916048276852737 https://twitter.com/geoffwozniak/status/1337916048276852737 where I revived the discussion of my talk.