From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   BartC  wrote:   
      
   (snip)   
   > Take the well-known language C, which has a crude mechanism to extend   
   > it in the form of its pre-processing macro language.   
      
   Now consider the less well known language PL/I, with a much   
   fancier preprocessor.  The PL/I preprocessor allows preprocessor   
   procedures, and procedure calls.   
      
      
   (snip)   
      
   > [Anyone ever look at the code for the Bourne shell, written in faux   
   > Algol-68 using C preprocessor macros. Yow. -John]   
      
   You mean like:   
      
   #define BEGIN {   
   #define END }   
      
   I have seen faux-Pascal before, but not faux-Algol.   
      
   -- glen   
   [The faux Algol-68 was pretty amazing.  For that matter, so was the   
   PL/I preprocessor, which let you write entire programs that run at   
   compile time. -John]   
      
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