Re: Macro processors

psj@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:


>I'm looking for the source of any fairly powerful macro processors.
> ...
>ISTR there was something called ML (macro language), but the entries
>for ML in the catalog (just published) seems to be for something
>different.


What I think you recall is P J Brown's ML/I. This was, maybe still is, one
of the best macro processors ever written.


Back in my days as a DEC-10 systems programmer I remember that the sources
of ML/I were included in the DECUS library tapes. Though I remember that it
was not of itself difficult to implement. Brown wrote about some of the
ideas within ML/I in his book ``Macro Processors''.


If anyone still has the source of ML/I I would love a copy of it. It is
hard to use the C pre-processor or any other macro processor when one has
used ML/I.


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Regards, Trevor.


Trevor Jenkins
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