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From: lambert@mcvax.uucp (Lambert Meertens)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pig C
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Date: Fri, 4-Jul-86 15:36:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  4 15:36:55 1986
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References: <1726@brl-smoke.ARPA> <6874@utzoo.UUCP> <249@sdchema.sdchem.UUCP>
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In article <249@sdchema.sdchem.UUCP> tps@sdchema.UUCP (Tom Stockfisch) writes:
> In article <6874@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> ...  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 [...] which effectively redefines the language.

I like this.  Also, if someone writes pseudo C code, you could call it

       Pigskin C

since it's only skin-deep (like, Pigskin Algol).

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     Lambert Meertens
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     CWI (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science), Amsterdam