From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:58:38 +0000 From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <471E5BE6.F79F7A3D@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <13426df10710231210o2ac74db9l77d71813eebf95c6@mail.gmail.com>, Subject: Re: [9fans] A probably stupid question on portability Topicbox-Message-UUID: d7c32a50-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Charles Forsyth wrote: > the rot really set in with reiser > This new version [of the preprocessor] was written by John F. Reiser and is from 5 to 12 > times faster than the old. > (but the input language was considerably more elaborate, and didn't people use it!) Virtually all the Reiser cpp features were used by a lot of code. Some code even exploited differences between what K&R1 Appendix A said and what the Reiser cpp actually did, such as substitution within string literals.