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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:47:19 -0700
Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Imported one C program that was all macros. In hindsight it would
> have been better just to rewrite it.

That was my conclusion, some years ago, when I looked at the MAME
source with the intent of borrowing some components for another
project. As far as I could determine, it was practically written in
some other language that the preprocessor turned into C on compile.