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Oh my, browsing around that repo and some of versions of sh[1] has possibly the worst C I've seen in production. Do you know the reasons for the "Pascal macros
by laumars 10y ago
Oh my, browsing around that repo and some of versions of sh[1] has possibly the worst C I've seen in production.
Do you know the reasons for the "Pascal macros" as they don't even make the C code Pascal compliant?
[1] http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=SysIII/usr/src/cmd/sh http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=SysIII/usr/src/...
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoDo you mean the ALGOL macros, which transform C into the so-called “BourneGOL”? They're there because Mr. Bourne liked ALGOL a lot.
- laumars 10y agoALGOL would make sense too. Thank you for the explanation.
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