on writing a while loop for rolling two dice

[alister]

On Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:53:29 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

> On 2021-09-06, Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> "Avi Gross" <avigross at 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.
>>
>>>So, how to do something like that in python, is a challenge left to the
>>>user
>>
>>   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.

1 Simple rule, if you are programming in language 'a' then write Language 
'a' Code it.

Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should


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