From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id fbeab034 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 22:37:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 1A6DB9BB21; Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:37:36 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996B693D33; Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:37:18 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id AFC3693D33; Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:37:16 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 339 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:37:15 AEST Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (outgoing-auth-1.mit.edu [18.9.28.11]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED5DC93D2B for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:37:15 +1000 (AEST) Received: from callcc.thunk.org (guestnat-104-133-0-98.corp.google.com [104.133.0.98] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.14.7/8.12.4) with ESMTP id xABMVU36029277 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:31:31 -0500 Received: by callcc.thunk.org (Postfix, from userid 15806) id E52D14202FD; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:31:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:31:29 -0500 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" To: Arnold Robbins Message-ID: <20191111223129.GB23273@mit.edu> References: <201911112110.xABLAQfW004396@skeeve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201911112110.xABLAQfW004396@skeeve.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.2 (2019-09-21) Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of m6? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:10:26PM +0200, Arnold Robbins wrote: > I guess I'll also ask, how widespread was the use of macro processors > in high level languages? They were big for assembler, and PL/1 had > a macro language, but I don't know of any other contemporary languages > that had them. Were the general purpose macro processors used a lot? > E.g. with Fortran or Cobol or ... Well, there's Ratfor (Rational Fortran), which was implemented as a preprocessor in front of Fortran. I don't think it was used a lot, though.... - Ted