12 Nov
2019
12 Nov
'19
4:31 a.m.
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:10:26PM +0200, Arnold Robbins wrote:
I guess I'll also ask, how widespread was the use
of macro processors
in high level languages? They were big for assembler, and PL/1 had
a macro language, but I don't know of any other contemporary languages
that had them. Were the general purpose macro processors used a lot?
E.g. with Fortran or Cobol or ...
Well, there's Ratfor (Rational Fortran), which was implemented as a
preprocessor in front of Fortran. I don't think it was used a lot,
though....
- Ted