5/19/2026 at 9:32:58 AM
by greyface-
5/21/2026 at 8:23:37 PM
I met Steve Bourne a while back and asked him why he chose to write sh with all those ALGOL-like macros. His answer was terse—he just wanted to use the syntax he was most familiar with.by msarnoff
5/21/2026 at 7:47:06 PM
I did that kind of thing when I first started using C (my attitude then was that C was fine, but it should have looked more like BCPL). I stopped after a short time.by vincent-manis
5/19/2026 at 10:25:23 AM
C for people who don't like C. At CompuServe, much of the legacy code base was in BLISS and so there was a header that said#define BEGIN { #define END }
etc. etc. etc.
by FrankWilhoit
5/21/2026 at 7:15:58 PM
> #define LOOP for(;;){Predicted Rust.
by keybored