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Maybe they don't want to move to a more advanced language, maybe they want to mess around with the C preprocessor. :)

If you want to show cleverness, by all means!

I still use some primitive tools, and know there are better alternatives, but I'm not going to defend sticking with them.

BTW, I did win the Obfuscated C contest one year, and (naturally) used the preprocessor:

https://www.ioccc.org/1986/bright/bright.c

Must... resist... being... nerdsniped... oh no too late, now I have to figure out what it's doing without looking it up. :D I've never entered the OCCC but I've read a bunch of past entries and always wanted to enter someday.

just last night i was thinking how cool it would be for an IDE plugin that expands rust macros for easier grokking. now i need one for your #defines, lol

cargo expand?

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