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msarnoff•about 1 hour ago
I met Steve Bourne a while back and asked him why he chose to write sh with all those ALGOL-like macros. His answer was terse—he just wanted to use the syntax he was most familiar with.
vincent-manis•about 2 hours ago
I did that kind of thing when I first started using C (my attitude then was that C was fine, but it should have looked more like BCPL). I stopped after a short time.
FrankWilhoit•2 days ago
C for people who don't like C. At CompuServe, much of the legacy code base was in BLISS and so there was a header that said

#define BEGIN { #define END }

etc. etc. etc.

keybored•about 2 hours ago
> #define LOOP for(;;){

Predicted Rust.