Re: macros, Looking for volunteers for XL

Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:36:23 -0800

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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:36:23 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
References: 11-11-048 11-11-053 11-11-054 11-11-061 11-11-064 11-11-069
Keywords: macros, comment
Posted-Date: 04 Dec 2011 15:02:21 EST

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:37:49 +0000 (UTC), His Excellence, The
Moderator wrote:


[snip]


>[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]


        ISTR that there were macro assemblers that did the same. I recall
an example of Towers of Hanoi being solved that way.


Sincerely,


Gene Wirchenko
[The assembler for IBM mainframes still does. -John]

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