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.
