18 points | by greyface- 2 days ago
3 comments
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.
> #define LOOP for(;;){
Predicted Rust.
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.
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.
> #define LOOP for(;;){
Predicted Rust.
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.