* * * * *
                                        
                    Kernighan, Ritchie and Lovecraft, oh my!
                                        
> C functions may be used recursively; that is, a function may call itself
> either directly or indirectly. Uninquiring souls may take this as just
> another peculiarity of those C folk, of whose ways their neighbours speak
> little to outsiders but much among themselves.
> 
> Keener news-followers, however, wondered at the events of the winter of
> 1927-28, the abnormally large number of calls placed upon the stack, the
> swiftness with which that list was sorted, the disturbing lack of heap
> allocation throughout the proceedings, and the secrecy surrounding the
> affair.
> 
> People in the nearby towns had talked about C for nearly a century, and
> nothing new could be wilder or more hideous than what they had whispered
> and hinted years before. Many things had taught them secrecy, and there was
> now no need to exert pressure on them.
> 

Via Reddit [1], “The C Programming Language: 4.10 [2]”

Speaking of eldritch [3] code [4] … 

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3itpli/since_recursion_is
[2] http://www.bobhobbs.com/files/kr_lovecraft.html
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/08/27.1
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/08/28.1

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