Pascal? That language that's widely used and available on every platform? Oh, wait... Seriously, I'm not sure what point you were trying to make?
On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 7:54 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > That approach doesn't work well for, e.g., decision-table macros, > report-generator macros. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [[email protected]] on > behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2023 7:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: looking for limbo languages - how low can you go? > > On 7/18/23 15:10:47, Phil Smith III wrote: > > Rick wrote about C and its power. As he noted, I *was* referring to the > macro language/preprocessor when I said "pathetic". Because it is. It's old > enough that it really should be more mature. > > Pascal has no macros. > > If the language is (FSVO) sufficiently complete it shouldn't need > them. Perhaps expanding subroutines inline for optimization. > > -- > gil > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it"
