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| From | Bart <bc@freeuk.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Am I writing C wrong? |
| Date | 2021-12-11 11:45 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <sp2316$qb5$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <f1ea6843-cddb-4824-b154-2580fd288407n@googlegroups.com> <f6031123-8826-4f98-ab37-5e41a3f7b99an@googlegroups.com> |
On 11/12/2021 04:11, Dave Dunfield wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 23, 2021 at 9:48:06 PM UTC-5, luser droog wrote:
>> .. It's so tempting to try to turn C into something else.
>> Twiddle the syntax with macros. ...
>
> One of the "most memorable" (to me "worst" :-) cases where I've seen this done
> was a linker called "VAL"... basically mostly done in a "language" not much like C.
>
> You can see it through my "Daves Old Computers" site, go to "Download DOS Widgets"
> near the bottom:
> http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/dos/index.htm
>
> Then grab VAL_SRC[.ZIP]
>
> and have an "interesting" read!
Some of that is reasonable but this is taking it a bit far:
#define LessThanOrEqualTo <=
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Am I writing C wrong? luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2021-11-23 18:48 -0800
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Re: Am I writing C wrong? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-11-25 14:28 +0000
Re: Am I writing C wrong? luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2021-11-25 19:18 -0800
Re: Am I writing C wrong? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-11-26 11:18 +0000
Re: Am I writing C wrong? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2021-12-10 01:11 -0800
Re: Am I writing C wrong? luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 15:02 -0800
Re: Am I writing C wrong? luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 21:00 -0800
Re: Am I writing C wrong? Dave Dunfield <dave.dunfield@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 20:11 -0800
Re: Am I writing C wrong? luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 20:47 -0800
Re: Am I writing C wrong? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2021-12-11 11:45 +0000
Re: Am I writing C wrong? Dave Dunfield <dave.dunfield@gmail.com> - 2021-12-11 14:00 -0800
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