Where did the T in wchar_t come from?
In many native types, a common suffix (and sometimes prefix) of t or _t is used to denote platform-independent types (such as wchar_t, int32_t, etc.)
What is the origin of the phrase “extirpated as a potential munition”
I recently came across this statement in the Perl documentation:
Etymology of “static” functions
I get why static local variables are called “static” — we want them to be allocated in static memory! But what is the reason for calling functions and variables we want restricted to the current file “static”? I don’t see the connection; either way, they’re allocated in static memory, right?