Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: want to know
Message-ID: <1989Aug17.162846.21900@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 16:28:46 GMT

In article <15373@rphroy.UUCP> tkacik@rphroy.UUCP (Tom Tkacik) writes:
>The pANS C got rid of the still born keyword 'entry'.
>Maybe it had no meaning, or was to mean something completely different,
>but my interpretation of it was to give the entry point into the program,
>if you did not like main.

Rather more likely is that it was meant to be similar to ENTRY in PL/I
(and FORTRAN, I think -- my memory is dim), providing for multiple entry
points into individual functions.  Ugh.
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