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I once saw a C header that defined "BEGIN" as {, "END" as } and other pascalisms. I find it difficult to understand how some people are so stubborn to change th
by marcodiego 5y ago
I once saw a C header that defined "BEGIN" as {, "END" as } and other pascalisms. I find it difficult to understand how some people are so stubborn to change their model of thinking.
- bombcar 5y agoI believe I’ve seen stuff like this used as partial help when transcribing a program from pascal or Fortran to C, from before the era of automatic tooling to help. Whether they’d ever go back and finish the migration is not known.
- pickledcods 5y agoThe biggest pitfall with manual bulk transcribing Pascal to C back in day, was that operator precedence between both languages are really different. Not only is their model of thinking different, it is also wrong.