Why I love C++ so much.

Igor Peshansky pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Fri Feb 22 16:16:00 GMT 2008


On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Michael Schaap wrote:

> On 22-Feb-2008 10:10, Warren Young wrote:
> >
> > *shrug* Anything can be abused. There's the old legend about the guy
> > who defined a bunch of macros so he could use Pascal (or Fortran, or
> > whatever) syntax to write in C.
>
> "the guy"? Not just _some_ guy...
> http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/mac.h.html

Heh, Warren did say he was a *legendary* guy...
	Igor
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