On 9/23/2015 4:27 PM, ben wrote: > On 9/23/2015 2:39 AM, ANDY HOLT wrote: >>> From: "Chuck Guzis" <ccl...@sydex.com> >> >> … >>> After all, languages are supposed to expose features >>> of the underlying machine to the programmer. >> >> Many believe that the purpose of languages is to HIDE (abstract) the >> underlying >> machine. > > The 60's idea that MACROS could do that seems to have faded away. > Ben. > >
Yes, STAGE2 and friends pretty well faded out when LR grammars and parsers and parser generators became more widely understood and used. JRJ
