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Reminds me of my "BASIC" #define statements I made in college to make C look slightly more BASIC-like, I think everyone does this the moment they realize they c
by giancarlostoro 3mo ago
Reminds me of my "BASIC" #define statements I made in college to make C look slightly more BASIC-like, I think everyone does this the moment they realize they can do this in C.
- bitwize 3mo agoStephen Bourne was a fan of Algol 68, and the original Bourne shell was written in "Bournegol", which is C with enough #define malarkey to make it more Algol-like: https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/mac.h https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/sh...
- anthk 3mo agoI was about to post this.