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Subject: Re: I think in FORTH & program in C/C++.
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On 09/30/2021 08:33 AM, chrisv wrote:
> rbowman wrote:
>
>> Jeff-Relf.Me@. wrote:
>>>
>>> I think in FORTH & program in C/C++;
>>> naturally, people freak out when they see my source code.
>>
>> I can believe that...  Reverse Polish Notation with Hungarian notation
>> would be more cryptic than something was AES 256 encoding.
>
> Have you seen Relf's code?  It's intentionally cryptic.  It's
> horrible.
>

I've seen enough terrible things in my life...  We had a programmer that 
fell in love with macros. There really wasn't any code there until you 
ran it through a compiler.

I think it was Ritchie who said that allowing macros in the language was 
one of his worst mistakes. It was such an innocent little idea...