12 Nov
2019
12 Nov
'19
1:30 a.m.
Not so fast there my friend. Ratfor was used a great deal. For instance The PGI compiler
folks wrote a parallel optimizing compiler for the FPS-164 in it. And FPS used it for
there OS. Plus Apollo wrote all their original utilities in it.
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
On Nov 11, 2019, at 5:31 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o
<tytso(a)mit.edu> 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 ...
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