Re: macros, Looking for volunteers for XL

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From	Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:37:49 +0000 (UTC), His Excellence, The
Moderator wrote:

[snip]

>[The faux Algol-68 was pretty amazing.  For that matter, so was the
>PL/I preprocessor, which let you write entire programs that run at
>compile time. -John]

    ISTR that there were macro assemblers that did the same.  I recall
an example of Towers of Hanoi being solved that way.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko
[The assembler for IBM mainframes still does. -John]

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