C's syntax (was Re: Python Formatted C Converter (PfCC))

Mark Jackson mjackson at wc.eso.mc.xerox.com
Wed Oct 25 12:52:20 EDT 2000


"Fredrik Lundh" <effbot at telia.com> writes:
> Grant Griffin wrote:
> > Isn't nice to type "{" rather than "begin"?
> 
> try a swedish keyboard, and you may change your mind
> after you've worn out a couple of thumbs...
> 
> (if I ever meet the IBM engineer etc etc)

Heh.  I once had to use a terminal in which delete-previous-character
was a SHIFTED key.

(*And* I was translating code heavy with arithmetic on complex numbers
into Pascal.  Don't get me started. . . :-)

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