Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
Pascal and C are close related.
No. Pascal and ALGOL are closely related, C and ALGOL are closely
related. Pascal and C are not so closely related.
Did ALGOL standarize the preprocessor? The high reliance on preprocessor is
often a hinderance in automated C conversion.
Burroughs ALGOL (-60 implied) had include and define as part of the
language. I think they were later moved into a preprocessor to make it
possible to implement them on smaller computers.
Sorry, having a bad day so rushed.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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