On Thu, 26 Sep 2019, at 19:36, Jon Perryman wrote: > Was the definition of > "macro" always the same as "copy"?
No. Perhaps you should read through: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macro_(computer_science) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_macro_processor An early far from simplistic macro language was ML/1 - see eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML/I -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
