Pig C

[shoat at glasgow.UUCP]

> 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:
> >> ...  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 [...] which effectively redefines the language.
> 
> I like this.  Also, if someone writes pseudo C code, you could call it
> 
>        Pigskin C
> 
> since it's only skin-deep (like, Pigskin Algol).
> 
> -- 
> 
>      Lambert Meertens
>      ...!{seismo,okstate,garfield,decvax,philabs}!lambert at mcvax.UUCP
>      CWI (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science), Amsterdam

	This could start a craze. Truly appalling code which offends even
	the hardened C programmer could be called "Pigshit C".