on writing a while loop for rolling two dice
Alan Gauld
alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Sep 7 19:24:44 EDT 2021
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.
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