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From: stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: When do you use "if ( a = b )"?
Message-ID: <866JZ5w163w@phoenix.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 91 01:50:06 EST
References: <15617@smoke.brl.mil>
Organization: Mad Scientist

gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

> cursed Bourne for doing that.  Eventually, the Bourne shell source
> was de-Algolized (by Dave Korn, if I recall correctly), so the version

  You mean he, like, ran it through the preprocessor and, sorta, let
the preprocessor convert all the Algol to the real C?