Re: C++ on the Down Slope?

[Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 11/01/2012 14:26, in article
2a3f7ec1-d3a3-4d2d-a20e-fc9dc7455121@o14g2000vbo.googlegroups.com, "Martin"
<martin@thedowies.com> wrote:

> On Jan 11, 1:26�pm, Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauh...@futureapps.de>
> wrote:
>> On 11.01.12 12:50, Martin wrote:
>> 
>>> C/C++/Objective-C - I can see why they get grouped. C/C++/C# - I just
>>> can't...
>> 
>> Part of the reason why C# is sometimes counted among the
>> nominal C languages is deliberate, I think: choosing the letter
>> C blends optimally with Microsoft's language marketing initiatives.
>> They have always known how to attract by assimilating popular ideas
>> into their offerings. �Popularity correlates with an increase in
>> likelihood of programmers taking curly braces for a sign of
>> C quality.
>> 
>> The reason that Netscape's browser based Lisp was named
>> Javascript and the reason why it is using C style syntax,
>> too, is similar; that's a fact insofar as some Netscape official
>> once explained it this way, though I haven't got a link handy, sorry.
>> 
>> Suppose A# wouldn't have all this 'Ref nonsense... :-)
> 
> 
> Anyone for Cada?...
> 
> #define { begin
> #define } end;
> 
> and away we go!!! :-)

The original Bourne shell was written in pseudo-Algol 68, using exactly that
'technique', but going in the opposite direction:

#define begin {
#define end   }

No, really.

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