From: genew@ocis.net   
      
   On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:37:49 +0000 (UTC), His Excellence, The   
   Moderator wrote:   
      
   [snip]   
      
   >[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]   
      
       ISTR that there were macro assemblers that did the same.  I recall   
   an example of Towers of Hanoi being solved that way.   
      
   Sincerely,   
      
   Gene Wirchenko   
   [The assembler for IBM mainframes still does. -John]   
      
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