Pig C
Lambert Meertens
lambert at mcvax.uucp
Sat Jul 5 05:36:55 AEST 1986
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
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CWI (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science), Amsterdam
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