Comment by gmiller123456

Back when I had just learned Pascal, and was beginning to learn C, I did some of this. No idea why I thought that would make it easier to learn. I did not take it as far as the author of this article did. But I did expand it to function calls like "#define writeln printf". Looking back, I'm a bit amazed I managed to learn it, as I was obviously putting more work into not learning C than learning it.