Friday, November 26, 2004

Bournegol

As I mentioned in my post about the Bourne Shell, the source code for Unix /bin/sh (aka Bourne Shell) was written by Steve Bourne using C macros to make C look like Algol-68. Developers hated to modify the code because you had to learn a new language. You could say that the code to /bin/sh was a cautionary tale of macro abuse. According to Marc Lehmann, this style of coding is called Bournegol .
posted by Bob at 11/26/2004 06:00:00 PM  | | digg | del.icio.us | reddit