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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pig C
Message-ID: <1630@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Jul-86 22:10:06 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  7 22:10:06 1986
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Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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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:
>>[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.

You haven't got the analogy quite right.  Pig Latin, after all, is a variant
of English, not of Latin.  So I would recommend you call such things "Pig
Pascal", not "Pig C".

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108