[fazkan]

Yea I know, it became the unary operator * in B , and then was used as such in C....

Read this (tough I am sure you have already read this), this is by the legend himself... https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

[faehnrich]

No, I have not read that yet. Thanks! Appropriate read for Dennis Ritchie Day https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/dennis-ritchie-day