Why is the main function called "main"? When did that become convention/engrained? C made it very popular, B required it, but I can't find consensus before that. It seems BCPL had 'start'/'main', but where did it *exactly* come from?
Why is the main function called "main"? When did that become convention/engrained? C made it very popular, B required it, but I can't find consensus before that. It seems BCPL had 'start'/'main', but where did it *exactly* come from?