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A comment on Boustrophedon.

Re:Boustrophedon by mkohler on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:20PM (#15543889)
I first encountered the word in the excellent book, Expert C Programming, by Peter van der Linden, who explained that declarations in C are read boustrophedonically.
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Re:Boustrophedon by morsch on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:28PM (#15543967)
In C++, on the other hand, they're read stroustruphedonically.
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Re:Boustrophedon by 3131s on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @06:18AM (#15548876)
I encountered "boustrophedon" a long time ago because it is one of the favorite words of the creator of the niche-but-awesome phrontistery.info

http://phrontistery.info/favourite.html

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