Why aren't we all speaking LISP now?

[John Markus Bjorndalen]

Konrad Hinsen <hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr> writes:

> Nothing of any use, neither theoretical nor practical. In order to get
> some required credits (as a physics major), I signed up for a course
> on systems programming, in which we were taught C. But all C examples
> required a special header file that made C acceptable for the
> Pascal-minded professor, e.g. #define BEGIN {

That wouldn't happen to be in France somewhere, would it? 

#include <syntax.h> ? 

Would you believe that people actually built systems with several
hundred thousand lines of code using semi-random indentation and
things such as BEGIN_PROC, END_PROC etc? 

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	// John Markus Bjørndalen