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Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> Even high-school employees could make lasting contributions.  I am
> indebted to Steve for a technique he conceived during his first summer
> assignment: using macro definitions as if they were units of associative
> memory. This view of macros stimulated previously undreamed-of uses.

Can you give some examples of what this looked like?

Thanks,

Arnold