on writing a while loop for rolling two dice

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2021-09-08 13:07:47 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
> On 8/09/21 2:53 am, Grant Edwards wrote:
> >    #define IF if (
> >    #define THEN ) {
> >    #define ELSE } else {
> >    #define ENDIF }
> 
> I gather that early versions of some of the Unix utilities were
> written by someone who liked using macros to make C resemble Algol.

Steve Bourne, the author of the eponymous shell.

        hp

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