[COFF] machine code translation, as mental architecture models

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

John Levine wrote:
> Take a look at PL/I.  Its preprocessor lets you use a large subset of
> PL/I including if, goto, and do loops and most of the string and
> arithmetic operators to write functions that run at compile time and
> put their results into the source file.

Another approach is for the language to offer evaluation at compile
time.

- FORTH had COMPILE and IMMEDIATE to switch modes; there's POSTPONE as
  well now.

- Zig has comptime.
  https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#comptime
  https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Case-Study-print-in-Zig

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.