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The Development of the C Language (Dennis Ritchie) (bell-labs.com)
8 points by qwph on Nov 15, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Was interesting reading the reasoning behind the funky & vs. == precedence rules. I.e. the requirement of parentheses when writing:

  if ((a&mask) == b)




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