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I very recently found about his love for C macros

http://research.swtch.com/shmacro

Looking at it reminded me of my first C textbook from school; "C as a second language for native speakers of Pascal". If I recall correctly, it has a section on macros you can define to make your C code look more like Pascal - much like how Bourne preferred Algol syntax.

At which point you wonder if you're writing C code anymore. There's also the king's way http://www.merl.com/publications/docs/TR93-17.pdf

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