Speaking as someone who has delved into the intricacies of PL/I, I am surethat only Real Men could have written such a machine-hogging,cycle-grabbing, all-encompassing monster. Allocate an array and free themiddle third? Sure! Why not? Multiply a character string times a bitstring and assign the result to a float decimal? Go ahead! Free acontrolled variable procedure parameter and reallocate it before passing itback? Overlay three different types of variable on the same memorylocation? Anything you say! Write a recursive macro? Well, no, but RealMen use rescan. How could a language so obviously designed and written byReal Men not be intended for Real Man use?
Keagan Reynolds
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