FYI Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
Begin forwarded message: > From: Doug McIlroy > Date: November 3, 2017 at 11:43:46 AM PDT > To: Steve Johnson, [email protected] > Subject: Re: Fwd: [Simh] An abandoned piece of K&R C > > Fascinating. As far as I know the min-max dream was never fulfilled. > > I have never understood why the math lib contains abs but not min and max. > Maybe the cause was that these plausible infix operators were lurking in > the wings. Makes one wonder whether dmr ever contemplated a prefix > operator for abs. (The obvious choice, '|', could well have been > rejected on the grounds that it's a parsing bugaboo, like unary '-', > but without centuries of tradition to recommend it.) > > Doug
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