- I met Steve Bourne a while back and asked him why he chose to write sh with all those ALGOL-like macros. His answer was terse—he just wanted to use the syntax he was most familiar with.
- When I try to open this URL in qutebrowser I get redirected to a random anthropic.com URL, for example: https://www.anthropic.com//0.76447840537627
Setting my User-Agent to match my Firefox instance fixes it.
by tensegrist
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- reminded of Arthur Whitney's stuff
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800777
by vincent-manis
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- I did that kind of thing when I first started using C (my attitude then was that C was fine, but it should have looked more like BCPL). I stopped after a short time.
by FrankWilhoit
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- C for people who don't like C. At CompuServe, much of the legacy code base was in BLISS and so there was a header that said
#define BEGIN {
#define END }
etc. etc. etc.
- > #define LOOP for(;;){
Predicted Rust.
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