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		sneed_chucker on Oct 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pretty.c Creating DSLs within C has a long tradition. Stephen Bourne wanted to write his shell in ALGOL so badly that he relentlessly beat C with its own preprocessor until it began to resemble his preferred language. https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/sh...

sheepscreek on Oct 24, 2024 | [–]

Here is an example of what we wrote using it:

https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/sh...

Keyframe on Oct 24, 2024 | | [–]

This is not even half as bad as I expected it to be.

amy-petrik-214 on Oct 25, 2024 | [–]

excellent lore. said to have been the inspiration for the obfuscated C code contest.

https://www.ioccc.org/

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