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From: phaedrus@eneevax.UUCP (Praveen Kumar)
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Subject: Re: C'mon, guys! (Really, pointer pedagogy)
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Date: Fri, 20-Jun-86 10:02:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 20 10:02:52 1986
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I believe that a lot of the notation in C is derived from PDP assembly
language.  I think (it has been long time since I mucked around with
PDPs) that the increment, "++", and the dereferencing, "*" operators are
straight out of PDP assembly.  That is, they work the same way in
PDP assembly. 

pk
-- 
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"You gotta watch the ones who always keep their hands clean."

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