Origin of the story that K&R style was chosen to save paper

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Paul Sinnett

Folklore. A sample quote:

Regarding brace placement: I like to spread the rumor that
K&R originally prefered the more spread out layout but were
coerced into the more compact layout by their book publisher
in order to save paper.

I guess that would explain it. The little prankster...
 

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