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I first encountered the word in the excellent book, Expert C Programming, by Peter van der Linden, who explained that declarations in C are read boustrophedonically.

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In C++, on the other hand, they're read stroustruphedonically.

I encountered "boustrophedon" a long time ago because it is one of the favorite words of the creator of the niche-but-awesome phrontistery.info

http://phrontistery.info/favourite.html

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