Re: PL/S programming language

In alt.folklore.computers glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>Frank McCoy wrote:
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>> In alt.folklore.computers "John H. Lindsay"
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>(snip)
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>>>Not PL360.  The latter was conceived by Niklaus Wirth
>>>of Pascal and Oberon fame while he was still at Stanford.
>>>It looked like Algol 60, but it was a higher level
>>>assembler for the I.B.M. 360 &c. machines.  While it
>>>s****ted base(-index)-offset addressing, it didn't
>>>have any sort of macros,
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>> Not knowing the particular language; but speaking up in its defense
>> anyway: Most languages (such as C) use a pre-compiler to implement
>> macros; running a shell around the actual compiler.  Sometimes
>> completely different languages (Pascal, C, BASIC or even Assembler)
have
>> used the exact same precompiler to implement macros, includes, and
>> various library functions before passing on the "full" or "expanded"
>> version to the actual compiler that produces either object-code or
>> sometimes assembly-language-code to be passed on to an assembler that
>> produces the actual machine-code.
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>One could probably have used the PL/I (F) preprocessor with PL/360.
>I think you can get it to write out the processed file.
>(If not, it writes it to a tem****ary file where you should be
>able to get it out.)
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Yep ... And likely even write a script to do the actual work of calling
the preprocessor of the source-file and then feeding that into the
compiler and fixing naming conventions up afterwards.

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