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by toopsss 2918 days ago
You haven’t read K&R C I’m going to guess. Terseness is a traditional component of C and UNIX (cf creat). I don’t care to debate the merits but that is a fact. Most C books in the 80s were written in this style. Furthermore in the days or micros code was generally terse for many and varied reasons. There were people typing code on membrane keyboards.