[M3devel] "target specific pragmas"?

hendrik at topoi.pooq.com hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Sat Feb 16 01:25:15 CET 2008


On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 03:51:43PM -0800, Mika Nystrom wrote:
> Darko writes:
>
> This is getting a bit silly, and I apologize to everyone reading this
> about wasting their time, but I just have to show you the following 
> file.  It is a header file from the original sources of "sh"
> (this copy is from 4.3 TAHOE UNIX, but of course the code is much
> older than that).
> 
> After that, blok.c, an example of "Bournegol" in use.
> 
> So, you want the opposite, huh?

Yeah.  Steve Bourne did an Algol 68 variant in Cambridge before he went 
to Bell Labs.  He did his bit here to make C look more like Algol 68C.
Except A68 allows things to be a lot more terse than here.

I think A68 had the right idea about syntax.  Except that it was 
horrible to parse.

-- hendrik



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