Pig C

[Frank Adams]

In article <249 at sdchema.sdchem.UUCP> tps at sdchema.UUCP (Tom Stockfisch) writes:
>In article <6874 at utzoo.UUCP> henry at utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>[discussion about redefining C with the preprocessor]
>>...  If you can read English you can read Pig Latin,
>>but nobody would tolerate documentation written in Pig Latin...
>
>This is such a great analogy, with Henry's permission I would like to coin
>the term
>
>	Pig C
>
>to refer to C code (like the Bourne shell) which effectively
>redefines the language.

You haven't got the analogy quite right.  Pig Latin, after all, is a variant
of English, not of Latin.  So I would recommend you call such things "Pig
Pascal", not "Pig C".

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