Why does old C code often declare functions or global variables in the scope it's used, rather than at the top of a source file or a header file?

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All-in-all this example doesn't seem too bad. It's clear what happens and is easy to follow. If you wan't to see something remarkably terribly, check out Whitney style. It's used in APL/J/K family interpreters. Keep in mind, financial institutions run that code.

• ancient-c-compilers

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  Very old C compilers

Yeah, it's like night and day when you compare very old C projects to modern ones, like the Linux kernel. The one I shared isn't even too bad; this code feels really prehistoric. It's a link to the source of a few compilers just as C was getting features like structs.

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