Re: Wrestling with phase 1 of a C compiler

From	gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Wrestling with phase 1 of a C compiler
Date	2022-09-12 13:01 -0700
Organization	Compilers Central
Message-ID	<22-09-005@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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On Monday, September 12, 2022 at 12:46:47 PM UTC-7, christoph...@compiler-resources.com wrote:

(snip)

> C is a nice small imperative language. It's fine for expressing those
> kinds of semantics. The C preprocessor is both simple and powerful, but it
> doesn't change the nature of C. You cannot really do "compilation" in the
> C preprocessor.

On of the earlier languages I knew, and maybe still favorite, is PL/I.

PL/I does have a powerful preprocessor, though I don't know so many
actually using its power.   It even has preprocessor procedures, if you
need them.

The most use of the power I have seen, is one for unrolling DO loops,
which unrolls smaller loops, but not larger ones, with either a
preprocessor %DO, or a real DO.

I do remember, though, first knowing abuot no preprocessor in Java,
and the trend of PL/I to C to Java, in decreasing preprocessor power.
[PL/I had its charms but I wouldn't want to write functional code
in it, either. -John]

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