Re: Friendlier syntax
- From: Maciek Pasternacki <maciekp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:16:27 +0200
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:17:43 +0300
"Alex Mizrahi" <udodenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hehe, i remember a story about some major programmer, who liked Pascal
syntax but had to write in C.
so he did
#define begin {
#define end }
and so on, and was programming in this weird mixture -- and people who had
to support his code also had to work with this nightmare.
i think it's not that uncommon for C programmers to alter syntax (in weird
and limited way, though)
For some reason, almost all early books on C written in Polish, when it came
to preprocessor, included an example header file that would translate those
ugly, horrible, unreadabable English keywords that nobody understands to
Polish:
#define if jezeli
#define else inaczej
#define while dopoki
#define int calkowita
and so on.
Unfortunately, I didn't see any of these in production.
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