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On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I'm guessing that can only have come from the mindset of C/C++ programmers,
> where this sort of thing is considered acceptable:

Maybe. The journal reference in the second link I posted dates the
practice back to at least 1975, a time predating K&R C, when it was
most notable as the language that Unix was written in. I wouldn't be
surprised if this actually originated from Fortran.