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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Modern langauges
Message-ID: <7055@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 12 Jan 88 05:10:49 GMT
References: <11072@brl-adm.ARPA> <1374@sugar.UUCP> <149@ateng.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <149@ateng.UUCP> chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>So true.  Peter Bourne wrote the Bourne shell using macros that make the
>program itself look like a shell script:

Any relation to Steve?

>This code is so difficult to read and maintain that I gave up on it and
>ported the C shell instead. (Thanks, Bill!)

The Bourne shell sources were turned back into non-ALGOLized C several
years ago. (Thanks, Dave!)