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- Path: sparky!uunet!infonode!henders
- From: henders@infonode.ingr.com (Greg Henderson)
- Subject: Re: EASY C
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.135918.7784@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
- References: <faivre.716116245@cst02> <1992Sep10.102835.20738@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> <faivre.716143938@cst02> <bosullvn.716205002@unix1.tcd.ie>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:59:18 GMT
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- bosullvn@unix1.tcd.ie (Bryan O'Sullivan) writes:
- >There are no pros, only cons. I have come into contact with
- >"profesionally-written" C which uses cpp to make the language look
- >like FORTRAN. This is incredibly annoying, and a serious abuse of
- >the preprocessor as far as I'm concerned. Fortunately, I don't
- >have to maintain the crud (only try and understand it, which is
- >hard enough), however.
-
- Well put. I have had to work with 'PASCALized' C, but it only annoyed
- me once. After spending a day w/ editor macroes changing BEGIN back to {,
- ad nauseum, and running the code through cb, I felt much better about it...
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- Greg ;)
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- Greg Henderson henders@infonode.ingr.com ...uunet!ingr!infonode!henders
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