[TUHS] why the leading under score added to function names?
A. P. Garcia
a.phillip.garcia at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 08:47:29 AEST 2012
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
>
> > This is interesting. It shows that (apparently) early on, assembler was
> > viewed as the primary programming language.
>
> Well, C didn't exactly spring from Zeus's brow :-) A good chunk of the
> C library was in assembler, as were quite a number of programs.
>
relevant:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/hist.html
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