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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>I'm going to a University that teaches "void main(void)" in it's 100-level
>CSC (CS is crop-science here, YES I am in the south!) programming class.
>Since 114 is the alternative to Chemistry II for many people, 95% of the
>people in CSC 114 will never take another programming class again. This 
>makes it "OK" to teach void main here (or so I am told, I think that's 
>bull).

`void main(void)' is Standard C in a freestanding environment.
BSD4.4Lite comes close to using it (it uses `void main(void *framep')).
It's surprising that an introductory course gets far enough to teach
the difference between freestanding and hosted environments :-).

Bruce