Re: Looking for volunteers for XL

BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:


(snip)
> Take the well-known language C, which has a crude mechanism to extend
> it in the form of its pre-processing macro language.


Now consider the less well known language PL/I, with a much
fancier preprocessor. The PL/I preprocessor allows preprocessor
procedures, and procedure calls.




(snip)


> [Anyone ever look at the code for the Bourne shell, written in faux
> Algol-68 using C preprocessor macros. Yow. -John]


You mean like:


#define BEGIN {
#define END }


I have seen faux-Pascal before, but not faux-Algol.


-- glen
[The faux Algol-68 was pretty amazing. For that matter, so was the
PL/I preprocessor, which let you write entire programs that run at
compile time. -John]

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