Comment by JdeBP
6 years ago
Interestingly, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22188704 , with similar techniques reinvented 4 decades later, was on Hacker News only yesterday.
6 years ago
Interestingly, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22188704 , with similar techniques reinvented 4 decades later, was on Hacker News only yesterday.
Yes, I commented there about the Bourne Shell and the IOCCC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22192910
The technique of macroing C to death to look like another language never died! It's still a very popular thing to do, but it's gotten a bit less wild now that C has been standardized to death.
I remember in college some friends of mine decided to macro C into really bad fake German. Think 'inten mainen" and 'printenoutenf'.