There is a legend that Dennis Ritchie, inventor of {C}, once
responded to demands for features resembling those of what at the
time was a much more popular language by observing "If you want PL/I,
you know where to find it." Ever since, this has been hackish
standard form for fending off requests to alter a new design to mimic
some older (and, by implication, inferior and {baroque}) one. The
case X = {Pascal} manifests semi-regularly on Usenet's comp.lang.c
newsgroup. Indeed, the case X = X has been reported in discussions of
graphics software (see {X}).
[glossary]