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Reminds me of my "BASIC" #define statements I made in college to make C look slightly more BASIC-like, I think everyone does this the moment they realize they can do this in C.

Stephen Bourne was a fan of Algol 68, and the original Bourne shell was written in "Bournegol", which is C with enough #define malarkey to make it more Algol-like:

https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/sh...

I was about to post this.

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