You mean Paul Gilmartin...and yes, in gmail I somehow responded to wrong note, probably by hitting Reply at the bottom instead of by the actual note in question! Sorry for confusion.
On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 7:59 AM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > The point that I am trying to make is that there are things that are easy > with macros but difficult with just procedures. Or were you asking Phil, > who was the one to mention Pascal? > > Of course, in a language like LISP where you can build code on the fly, > things are different. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [[email protected]] on > behalf of zMan [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2023 11:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: looking for limbo languages - how low can you go? > > 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" > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it"
