i miss the old days
we don’t do Java here hahahahha
Surely only 7 bits are wasted. I’m pretty sure K&R specifies this for C, which I always found wasteful.
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They really accumulus in there.
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I didn’t see the 7 tucked in there at the end of line 1. When K&R was released it was a defacto 8 bit world. When operating systems became 16, 32 and 64 bit the speed optimisation requirements of C and C++ would have kicked in and changed things to more than a byte.
I hear ya Jeremie…
Sometimes it takes a lot of fiddling with several platforms, models and sub-models to get some good results.
And even then… it takes a lot of cleaning-up to do 
“W” is the only letter with more than one syllable (except for the LMNO).
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Says it all , really..
I had an idea that maybe I could add online backup of customer documents to my apps.
So I did a search..
I find the ‘detailed breakdown’ hilarious.
I hope the AI hallucinated those stupid, confusing, useless acronyms.