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From: shoat@glasgow.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pig C
Message-ID: <644@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Jul-86 12:27:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: glasgow.644
Posted: Fri Jul 11 12:27:08 1986
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Organization: Comp Sci Dept, Glasgow Univ, Scotland
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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).
> 
> -- 
> 
>      Lambert Meertens
>      ...!{seismo,okstate,garfield,decvax,philabs}!lambert@mcvax.UUCP
>      CWI (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science), Amsterdam

	This could start a craze. Truly appalling code which offends even
	the hardened C programmer could be called "Pigshit C".