[TUHS] History of m6?

Theodore Y. Ts'o tytso at mit.edu
Tue Nov 12 08:31:29 AEST 2019


On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:10:26PM +0200, Arnold Robbins wrote:
> I guess I'll also ask, how widespread was the use of macro processors
> in high level languages?  They were big for assembler, and PL/1 had
> a macro language, but I don't know of any other contemporary languages
> that had them.  Were the general purpose macro processors used a lot?
> E.g. with Fortran or Cobol or ...

Well, there's Ratfor (Rational Fortran), which was implemented as a
preprocessor in front of Fortran.  I don't think it was used a lot,
though....

					- Ted


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