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Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died by CamperBob on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @11:14PM (#3105897)
You mean:

   #include <stdio.h>
   
   main() {
      printf("goodbye, world\n");
   }
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Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died by zmitri on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @11:28PM (#3105933)
It's true, he preferred the brackets formatted this way.
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Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died by buddydvd on Thursday October 13, 2011 @02:11AM (#3106327)
For functions declarations, K&R style says braces open on new lines.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style

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Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died by nikcub on Thursday October 13, 2011 @01:11AM (#3106189)
it is a sure-fire way to distinguish between developers who learnt to code a while ago from K&R and those who didn't.

I can't stand looking at braces on new lines. It is all from back when a new line was something to be treasured as displays were bad.

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Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died by msl on Thursday October 13, 2011 @02:21AM (#3106349)
Actually, my copy of the second edition K&R seems to have the opening brackets on new lines when it comes to function declarations, so:

main () {

but: while (){ and: if(){

I don't have a copy of the first edition at hand but I seem to remember that it uses this same style.

//msl

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Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died by vsrinivas on Thursday October 13, 2011 @01:11PM (#3107895)
The first edition has opening brackets for functions on a new line. It also used a space before parenthesis for while loops and conditionals. Return types, when required, were on the same line as a function name.
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Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died by ajays on Thursday October 13, 2011 @02:02AM (#3106301)
Exactly. On a 24-line VT100 display, you bet that every line was important!
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Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died by sgerrand on Thursday October 13, 2011 @03:53PM (#3108514)
As should we all.
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