21 Jul
2025
21 Jul
'25
11:13 a.m.
No awk at all. Much imitation of Lisp and Haskell
On Sunday, July 20, 2025, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 07:06:38PM -0700, Larry McVoy
wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 08:30:45PM -0400, Douglas
McIlroy wrote:
It's pretty awk inspired.
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Larry McVoy Retired to fishing
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
I just posted the most heavily commented code I
have ever written.
It's a radical (mis?)application of m4, which is about as inscrutable
as any language short of APL. The ratio of comments to code is more
than 3:1.
It's at www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/barem4.m4. 3:1 may be
overkill, but I think 2:1 would not be unreasonable.
Doug
Whenever I see something like this, it reminds me of one of my engineers
who said you couldn't make BK produce json out put.
Hold my beer.
http://mcvoy.com/lm/bkdocs/dspec-changes-json-v.txt
It's a lot less miserable than the m4 (and I'm a fan of m4).