7 Jan
2020
7 Jan
'20
10:49 a.m.
Doug McIlroy wrote:
Brian Walden's discussion of sh #, etc, is right
on.
However, his etymology for unary * in C can be
pushed back at least to 1959. * was used for
indirect addressing in SAP, the assembler for
the IBM 7090.
Thank you for both the confirmation and also that history update.
-Brian