I once took over a C project from someone who had ♯define'd words like "BEGIN", "THEN", and "END" to use instead of various parens—like she was a medieval theologian, asserting control by naming things. I gathered that she was an #Ada or somesuch programmer who thought she was `making C have less parens'. It's usually C programmers who make the `Lots of Irritating Silly Parentheses' crack, though—isn't it?