A note on the style of C code

Author: tavmem

README.md

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 To get perspective on the progression to the latest reincarnation see https://shakti.com/database-software-history/
 
+A note on the unusual style of C code:  It attempts to replicate the style of Arthur Whitney.  A striking original example is contained in file https://github.com/tavmem/buddy/blob/master/a/b.c. There are 2 versions of the buddy memory allocation system. The first is in 11 lines in Whitney's style. The second is in well documented traditional C (almost 750 lines).
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