[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Paul.Raulerson]

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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.
> 
> --

None of which even begins to compare with the Macro facility in HLASM.
But then, they were kind of designed for different things, eh? 

-Paul