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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Where did ++ come from?
Message-ID: <2657@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Jun-86 21:49:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 26 21:49:41 1986
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In article <2140@dutoit.UUCP> dmr@dutoit.UUCP writes:
> It used * and $ rather than @ and # because the former were
> analogous respectively to the B notation and to other assembly
> languages I knew, and (equally) because @ and # were the kill and
> erase characters.

So, why does C use # for the preprocessor instead of $?
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