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jv22222 on Sept 3, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: K&R C (2014)

I heard a story that the original indentation style that K&R wanted to use was the same as Allman, but then the printers chose to do the current K&R style to save paper.

Does any one know if that's true, or just an urban legend?

enf on Sept 3, 2015 [–]

The book was typeset by the authors, so it seems unlikely.

K&R style is clearly in evidence in source code from 1973 such as https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...

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