Re: macros, Looking for volunteers for XL

From	glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: macros, Looking for volunteers for XL
Date	2011-12-05 04:24 +0000
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Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:37:49 +0000 (UTC), His Excellence, The
> Moderator wrote:

>>[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.

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

I don't know if they still do, but for S/360 and S/370 the
assembler was used to generate programs, JCL and all, for sysgen.

The traditional method was to punch on real cards, and then put those
cards in a real card reader.  Now they get punched on virtual cards
and go into a virtual card reader.  (At least for emulated hosts.)

I don't know if this is still used for z/OS, though.

And still not quite as powerful as the PL/I preprocessor.

-- glen

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            Re: macros, Looking for volunteers for XL Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-03 17:36 -0800
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