Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Gene Wirchenko Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: macros, Looking for volunteers for XL Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:36:23 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <11-12-010@comp.compilers> References: <11-11-048@comp.compilers> <11-11-053@comp.compilers> <11-11-054@comp.compilers> <11-11-061@comp.compilers> <11-11-064@comp.compilers> <11-11-069@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com X-Trace: leila.iecc.com 1323028941 35558 64.57.183.58 (4 Dec 2011 20:02:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 20:02:21 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: macros, comment Posted-Date: 04 Dec 2011 15:02:21 EST X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.compilers:382 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]