Bournegol??? (2014) (opens in new tab)

I met Steve Bourne a while back and asked him why he chose to write sh with all those ALGOL-like macros. His answer was terse—he just wanted to use the syntax he was most familiar with.

When I try to open this URL in qutebrowser I get redirected to a random anthropic.com URL, for example: https://www.anthropic.com//0.76447840537627

Setting my User-Agent to match my Firefox instance fixes it.

reminded of Arthur Whitney's stuff

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800777

I did that kind of thing when I first started using C (my attitude then was that C was fine, but it should have looked more like BCPL). I stopped after a short time.

C for people who don't like C. At CompuServe, much of the legacy code base was in BLISS and so there was a header that said

#define BEGIN { #define END }

etc. etc. etc.

> #define LOOP for(;;){

Predicted Rust.