[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

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In article <7irnm8F31nq9iU15 at mid.individual.net>, Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
>On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:36:36 +0000, VAXman- wrote:
>
>>>Just took a look - c1 was 15K, c1 was 21K, and c2 was 8K (approx).
>>>That's just code and static data. c1 would need a lot of dynamically
>>>allocated storage for symbol tables, parse trees, etc.
>> 
>> If you haven't taken notice, C isn't being used these days for PDP-11
>> programming.
>
>Never said it was! I was looking at the 1976 version of UNIX, which I 
>have here. Just explaining the main reason the preprocessor was separate.

...but the preprocessor is still lame today in comparision to what I can
to with a macro in Macro-32 or Bliss.

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