What Can't C Do?

[Aaron Werman]

Here is a neologism that I had wanted to add to C back in the
seventies, when C wasn't considered the next COBOL:
	add a GENSYM to the preprocessor (you know, that macro in
	LISP/assemblers that creates a new, different identifier
	whenever invoked, allowing harrowing language additions)
I shudder to think of it now, when it it is considered a reasonable
applications development language.
			{harpo,houxm,ihnp4}!pyuxss!aaw
			Aaron Werman