Re: main()

From	scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
Subject	Re: main()
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
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Date	2017-04-14 15:00 +0000

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bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>On 14/04/2017 15:04, Lew Pitcher wrote:

>Either it's an amazing coincidence or one came first and the other 
>copied. That may or may not been a sensible thing to do, but it makes it 
>harder to disentangle what is C, and what is OS.

Which is hardly suprising, given the history of the development
of C (which was developed as the language for Unix kernel
and operating system utility development
some decade or more before Windows existed).

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main() bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-04-14 00:53 +0100
  Re: main() Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-04-13 19:10 -0500
  Re: main() antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2017-04-14 02:51 +0000
  Re: main() scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-04-14 12:58 +0000
    Re: main() bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-04-14 14:11 +0100
      Re: main() Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-04-15 07:53 -0700
        Re: main() supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-04-15 08:43 -0700
        Re: main() Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-04-15 16:50 +0100
        Re: main() Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-04-15 15:31 -0700
        Re: main() gordonb.y2etp@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2017-04-16 00:19 -0500
    The exec*() family (Was: main()) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2017-04-15 17:01 +0000
  Re: main() Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2017-04-14 10:04 -0400
    Re: main() bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-04-14 15:52 +0100
      Re: main() scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-04-14 15:00 +0000
      Re: main() Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2017-04-14 13:49 -0400

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