Well, macros were omnipresent by the 1960s. When did FAP come along?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf of Phil Smith <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 9, 2017 6:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Address of a Literal I can't help but note that it's pretty funny that people are complaining about assembler limitations. When I was a lad, the assembler could barely do macros... (Of course, so-called "high-level" languages like C should be so lucky as to have the power of assembler macros! Their idea of a "macro" is really quite primitive.)
