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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: Chet Ramey <chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] pascal, TeX
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:47:46 +0000
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In article <3C18EF44.38244A15@strakt.com>,
Boyd Roberts <9fans@cse.psu.edu> wrote:
>George Michaelson wrote:
>> I think a macro processor remains a fundamentally good thing. Else
>> how could Bourne have programmed his shell in Pascal?
>
>Bourne programmed his shell in SHELLGOL; one of the true ghastly
>abuses of the preprocessor:

I still prefer `Bournegol', since he wrote adb in it, too.
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