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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 28 Feb 2025 02:34:52 GMT
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On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:43:51 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> When all you had was Macro assembler, writing a good library of Macros
> gave you almost a high level language, except it wasn't portable.
> 
> C *was* portable, mostly.
> 
> And it was faster to write than Macros assembler. It was really a no
> brainer.

Sadly, macros made their way into C. The basic idea was fine but we had 
one programmer who laid awake nights thinking up new perverted things to 
do with macros. I forget if it was Kernighan or Ritchie who later said if 
they had only known what people would do with them...

C++ doubled down with inline functions.