on writing a while loop for rolling two dice

[Alan Gauld]

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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