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

[Jay Jaeger]

On 9/23/2015 6:24 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:

> On 09/23/2015 02:27 PM, ben wrote:
> 
>> The 60's idea that MACROS could do that seems to have faded away.
>> Ben.
> 
> It depends.  One very handy method is to devise a machine architecture,
> complete with registers and opcodes, and write the application code in
> macros, creating instruction words--and then run them using a small
> emulator for the devised machine.
> 
> After operation can be validated, re-code the macro bodies to generate
> native machine code instead of emulated fictitious machine instructions.
> 
> A way to get certain tasks done very quickly.
> 

Shades of SIL for SNOBOL and also STAGE2.

JRJ