Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:36:50 -0600 Message-ID: <50B5A2F2.5917@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:36:50 -0500 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Origin of the story that K&R style was chosen to save paper References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.220.227 X-Trace: sv3-V2MjsXXaiZXSRu0WG0FZtb+WNm8vGuF5uKPzWqzMVgpWGgf3MgcjaGXNWAkvopd6lvfyandxb2BaZzp!js0ZDCpcH2UmfoyOM7/3dmWHaY5l+AibGaHdNZiSWHVIeqh6FiNARu7U3e79BMBI7YsYD91OCxPw!qHbhOAeqllA= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1990 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:28718 Keith Thompson wrote: > > Paul Sinnett writes: > > I've been told by several people that the reason the K&R style was > > chosen for the C Programming Language book was because the publisher > > wanted to reduce the length of the book. > > But I've been unable to find > > any authoritative source for the story. Does anyone know where this > > idea comes from? An interview maybe? > > A bit of Googling found a discussion at > which > includees this comment from a bruce89, posted August 16th, 2008: > > I wonder if people know there's a note in K&R which says "we're > doing it like this to save paper". > > I don't know whether this is true; > I don't remember seeing such a note. It is not true. The text of K&R does not contain the word "paper". -- pete