[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Eager]

On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:04:44 +0000, VAXman- wrote:

> 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.

Agreed. But what I've always done is use a separate macro processor (not 
m4, as noted!) which makes Macro-32 look lame!



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