Dr David G Korn to speak at SVNet

Dr A. N. Walker anw at maths.nott.ac.uk
Thu Mar 15 03:03:47 AEST 1990


In article <1990Mar11.160403.27949 at sobeco.com> roe at sobeco.com
(r.peterson) writes:
>And even more to do with the fact that Bourne used the preprocessor
>to turn C into a bizarre pascal-lookalike.  Truly the most difficult
>code I've ever tried to modify.

	Actually, he used it to turn an Algol lookalike [not very!]
into C.  Some of us old-timers found it quite readable.  I've seen
much worse code over the years.

-- 
Andy Walker, Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK.
anw at maths.nott.ac.uk



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