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From: dce@tekecs.UUCP (David Elliott)
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Subject: Re: RE: our friend "{"
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Date: Mon, 15-Aug-83 00:19:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 15 00:19:01 1983
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I think that Alan is right. Take the Bourne Shell for example. The
damn thing is written in something that looks like Algol, except
that the C code shows through. It's almost worthwhile to send it through
the C preprocessor just to make it readable (I did this to look for
some things I couldn't find the way it was).

Macros should be used to clarify the code, not make it easier to
program rather than learn C.

			David