[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Eager]

On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:24:08 +0000, Bob Eager wrote:

>> Because C came from the Unix environment and putting the Macro
>> Pre-preocessor in the compiler would have violated the paradigm Unix
>> was based on.  Thus, "cpp" and, of course, M4 as separate programs.

An unrelated comment: m4 must be the worst macro processor I have ever 
seen. I might be a bit biased; I've used the same one since 1971! It's 
been ported to everytung; I did the VMS version sometime in the 1980s.

  http://www.ml1.org.uk




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