On a related note, I just read cstr 99 - Bell's computing research history and one of Doug's early articles was mentioned:

M. D. McIlroy, "Macro Instruction Extension of Compiler Languages," Communications of the
ACM 3 (April 1960), pp. 214-220.

It's discussing the general extensibility that macros provide and I was interested to obtain a copy to read at leisure. I found it over on ACM's digital library:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/367177.367223

But, the copy's not that great on my deteriorating eyesight. Does anybody have a cleaner copy?

Lately, I've been vastly improving my vi/vim skills and part of that process is shifting from an ad-hoc process to a move, act, repeat mentality (thank you Drew Neil for that revelation) and macros are consonant with this line of thinking :).

Will


On 6/29/23 09:40, Clem Cole wrote:
+1 👍
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 3:37 AM Noel Hunt <noel.hunt@gmail.com> wrote:
Many thanks.

On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 17:14, <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
>
> Available at https://www.skeeve.com/bell-labs-cstrs.tar.gz
>
> Warren and Brantley and anyone else, feel free to retrieve.
>
> I have two sets - both are in the tarball so there are undoubtedly
> duplications.  If someone else can curate them into single canonical
> set that'd be helpful, I just don't have the time right now.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Arnold