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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: semicolon at end of python's statements
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 14:04:15 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2013-09-05, Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> Someone I knew actually used these definitions when writing C in a
> Pascalish, Algol68ish style (if I remembered them correctly):
>
> #define IF if(((
> #define AND ))&&((
> #define OR )||(
> #define THEN ))){
> #define ELSE }else{
> #define FI }

Yep, I once knew somebody who used a set of macros like that to make C
programs look as much like some dialect of BASIC as possible.  He also
wrote his letters/memos in Lotus 1,2,3...

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