On 07/09/2021 15:53, Grant Edwards wrote: > 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.
That was quite common in C before it became popular(early/mid 80s). I've seen Pascal, Algol and Coral macro sets in use. You could even download pre-written ones from various bulletin boards (remember them?!) for a while. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list