Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : news0009 (at) *nospam* eager.cx (Bob Eager)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 28. Feb 2025, 13:39:44
Autres entêtes
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:34:52 +0000, rbowman wrote:
Sadly, macros made their way into C. The basic idea was fine but we had
one programmer who laid awake nights thinking up new perverted things to
do with macros. I forget if it was Kernighan or Ritchie who later said
if they had only known what people would do with them...
I probably do far too much with a standalone macro processor...
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