29 Jun
2023
29 Jun
'23
9:14 p.m.
On a related note, I just read cstr 99 - Bell's computing research
history and one of Doug's early articles was mentioned:
M. D. McIlroy, "Macro Instruction Extension of Compiler Languages,"
Communications of the
ACM 3 (April 1960), pp. 214-220.
It's discussing the general extensibility that macros provide and I was
interested to obtain a copy to read at leisure. I found it over on ACM's
digital library:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/367177.367223
But, the copy's not that great on my deteriorating eyesight. Does
anybody have a cleaner copy?
Lately, I've been vastly improving my vi/vim skills and part of that
process is shifting from an ad-hoc process to a move, act, repeat
mentality (thank you Drew Neil for that revelation) and macros are
consonant with this line of thinking :).
Will
On 6/29/23 09:40, Clem Cole wrote:
+1 👍
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 3:37 AM Noel Hunt <noel.hunt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Many thanks.
On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 17:14, <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
Available at https://www.skeeve.com/bell-labs-cstrs.tar.gz
Warren and Brantley and anyone else, feel free to retrieve.
I have two sets - both are in the tarball so there are undoubtedly
duplications. If someone else can curate them into single canonical
set that'd be helpful, I just don't have the time right now.
Enjoy,
Arnold