From: "gah4"    
   Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2022 4:10 PM   
   >   
   > The C preprocessor, originally a separate pass, but now usually implemented   
   > together with the rest of the C compiler, processes its statements, and   
   passes   
   > everything else through.  It does that well enough, that it is commonly used   
   > with Fortran.  (The traditional version, not the newer one.)   
      
   IBM's PL/I has a preprocessor that accepts a subset of PL/I.   
   The finished text is then passed to the compiler.   
      
   XPL processes such text as it goes, handling the text processing   
   before passing it to the compiler.   
      
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