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Re: The STEP Preprocessor

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From Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com>
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This was a fairly popular technique back in the 1970s. The RATFOR preprocessor <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfor> was actually used by non-academic types.
[Considering that Ratfor was written at Bell Labs, of course it was used by
non-academic types.  It was quite popular in the numerical analysis community.
I ported it to PDP-10 Fortran. -John]

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The STEP Preprocessor glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-07-12 06:39 +0000
  Re: The STEP Preprocessor Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com> - 2011-07-16 06:59 -0700
    Re: The STEP Preprocessor glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-08-02 20:54 +0000

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