12 Nov
2019
12 Nov
'19
4:58 a.m.
On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
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 ...
Late trivia: it's PL/I, not PL/1; rumour has it that IBM trademarked them
all up to PL/C i.e. PL/100...
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....
I think I used it once, on the principle that I'll try anything once;
ugh...
-- Dave