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From: tps@sdchem.UUCP (Tom Stockfisch)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Pig C
Message-ID: <249@sdchema.sdchem.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Jul-86 20:32:12 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  2 20:32:12 1986
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Organization: Chemistry Dept, UC San Diego
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In article <6874@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>[discussion about redefining C with the preprocessor]
>...  If you can read English you can read Pig Latin,
>but nobody would tolerate documentation written in Pig Latin...

This is such a great analogy, with Henry's permission I would like to coin
the term

	Pig C

to refer to C code (like the Bourne shell) which effectively
redefines the language.  Then when someone posts some bit of obfuscutia
you can flame them saying, "This code looks like Pig C to me."

--Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry