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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 28 Feb 2025 12:39:44 GMT
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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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