Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> writes: > On 2021-09-06, Stefan Ram <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: >> "Avi Gross" <avigr...@verizon.net> writes: >>> In languages like C/C++ there are people who make up macros like: >>>#define INDEFINITELY_LOOP while (true) >>>Or something like that and then allow the preprocessor to replace >>>INDEFINITELY_LOOP with valid C code. >> >> Those usually are beginners.
[...] >> Such a use of macros is frowned upon by most C programmers, >> because it renders the code unreadable. > > I remember engineering manager I worked with about 35 years ago who > used a set of C macros to try to make his code look as much like BASIC > as possible: > > #define IF if ( > #define THEN ) { > #define ELSE } else { > #define ENDIF } > ... > > IIRC he copied them out of a magazine article. > > He then proceeded to try to implement a tree search algorithm (he > didn't actually know that's what he was doing) using his new > "language" without using recursion (which he had never heard of and > couldn't grok) by keeping track of state using an array. It did not go > well and made him a bit of a laughingstock. IIRC, he had first tried > to write it in actual BASIC, but gave up on that before switching to C > and his ridiculous macro set. LOL! (Had fun reading this.) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list