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On 9/11/2011 7:58 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
...
> Many years ago I saw a person that liked Pascal do the following
> in C:
>
> #define begin {
> $define end }
>
> The result was not pretty.
...

I think I saw some of the same code, or at least code written in a
similar way. I found it totally unreadable, as though it were in a
programming language I didn't know, despite being familiar with both
Pascal and C.

Patricia