Honeysuckle, Thursday, 11 June 12026 HE
2026-06-11 | 26F11 | 2026-162 | 2461203
2026-W24-4 | Q2 | Estate
Klass & Michael Roman – “Popcorn (LA Night)” ↗
while there was a proliferation of indentation styles, there was also variations on “macro abuse” to make C look or feel like another programming language – one of the most famous was Bournegol by Stephen Bourne (ALGOL 68, Bourne shell):
/* Bournegol style */
#define WHILE while(
#define DO ){
#define OD ;}
WHILE x == y DO
foo();
bar()
OD
the other famous style was APL style made famous by Arthur Whitney (A+, K, Q) – APL style involves not only redoing indentation but also shortening names to one or two letters
/* APL style */
#define W(c,b) {while(c){b}}
W(x==y,f();b();)
Marc Lehmann’s “Bournegol Page” ↗
An Implementation of J: Incunabulum ↗
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