Conor: ...it’s not C, it’s like a macro variant of C, where it’s a CDSL, where 80% of your “library” is macros. I did a search, there’s 10,000 macros in the sou

Conor: ...it’s not C, it’s like a macro variant of C, where it’s a CDSL, where 80% of your “library” is macros. I did a search, there’s 10,000 macros in the source code, and those macros are used like functions ... some of the exact same macros that exist in the J code base are exactly what competitive programmers use. He is, of course, talking about things like this (from the "J incunabulum"): #define DO(n,x) {I i=0,_n=(n);for(;i<_n;++i){x;}} Which is actually pretty concise and readable. Sometimes I think it would be nice if enough people could agree on a header library of "concise C" macros that they could become part of the idiom. Or at least a minority dialect instead of an idiolect.