Structured Fortran - was Re: Self modifying code, lambda calculus

[Jay Jaeger]

On 9/23/2015 4:27 PM, ben wrote:

> On 9/23/2015 2:39 AM, ANDY HOLT wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> 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