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		stormbrew on Dec 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Infamous Windows “Hello World” Program Until a few years ago you could still find K&R declarations in the Ruby source code[1]. Wasn't until 1.9 that they switched things over to ANSI style, iirc. So, believe it or not, you might still find it out there in the wild. [1] eg: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v1_8_7_374/compar.c

umanwizard on Dec 10, 2014 | [–]

FreeBSD still uses this declaration style liberally (keep in mind FreeBSD is a fork of BSD which has been around for some decades, and it makes sense that there's some old code floating around in the kernel)

astrange on Dec 10, 2014 | [–]

unzip and zlib, which you can find embedded in many other projects, use K&R C style to this day.

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