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bitwizeyesterday at 8:37 PM1 replyview on HN

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...


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anthkyesterday at 10:40 PM

I was about to post this.