23 Sep
2015
23 Sep
'15
3:09 p.m.
On 9/23/2015 4:27 PM, ben wrote:
On 9/23/2015 2:39 AM, ANDY HOLT wrote:
The 60's idea that MACROS could do that seems to have faded away.
Ben.
Yes, STAGE2 and friends pretty well faded out when LR grammars and
parsers and parser generators became more widely understood and used.
JRJ
From:
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
?
After all, languages are supposed to expose
features
of the underlying machine to the programmer.
Many believe that the purpose of languages is to HIDE (abstract) the
underlying
machine.