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From: aaw@pyuxss.UUCP (Aaron Werman)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: What Can't C Do?
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Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 09:14:50 EST
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Here is a neologism that I had wanted to add to C back in the
seventies, when C wasn't considered the next COBOL:
	add a GENSYM to the preprocessor (you know, that macro in
	LISP/assemblers that creates a new, different identifier
	whenever invoked, allowing harrowing language additions)
I shudder to think of it now, when it it is considered a reasonable
applications development language.
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			Aaron Werman