Can anyone share the origin of the Windows naming convention (using PascalCase for functions, and some UPPERCASE_WITH_UNDERSCORES for types)? This came before Dave Cutler and appears to even be pre-Simonyi. @BillGates?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0 …
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No, pascal calling convention was used because its more efficient at the time, because of how the stack clean up worked you could make multiple calls with the same stack. I think the one to ask about this is probably Mike Abrash. I
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I believe the __pascal calling convention saved them one disc for shipping because the way how the stack gets prepared and cleaned. But I might be wrong. Of course, Raymond Chen has article about this: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040102-00/?p=41213 …
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That's what I'm guessing but I've never been able to find a definitive answer.
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They were developing a compiler in 1980 so it seems plausible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Pascal …
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@ChenCravat may know. He wrote a series on this:https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040102-00/?p=41213 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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