From: jls@summit.novell.com (-mlc-+Schilling J.)
Subject: Re: C++ bashing (was Re: Vendor bashing? Sort of.)
Date: 5 Oct 1994 10:24:31 -0400
Date: 1994-10-05T10:24:31-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36ucuvINNap0@marble.summit.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36s7pv$pqk@gnat.cs.nyu.edu
In article <36s7pv$pqk@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>Jonothan, if you reread my original post, I never said that C-Front was
>not a compiler, I said that it was a preprocessor. [...]
>
>I find preprocessor to be the most precise [term]. To me
>it means precisely that you have a processor that takes one source language
>and generates another which is then subsequently fed into an existing
>compiler for the generated language. [...]
We're in complete agreement other than on what the term "preprocessor" means.
To me, the feeling of the term suggests "a little work before starting the
main work", which fits into the C/C++ and PL/I model of a general purpose
language that is augmented with a (comparatively smaller and simpler) macro
language. Cfront doesn't fit, since {C++ - C} is a bigger language than C.
But I have no idea what the general accepted meaning of "preprocessor" is....
--
Jonathan Schilling
Novell, UNIX Systems Group (UNIX System Laboratories)
jls@summit.novell.com
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-09-08 13:53 Air Force shows how meaningless Ada waiver process is Rhoda Metzger
1994-09-08 17:36 ` John R. Cobarruvias
1994-09-08 19:14 ` Greg Annoyingme gets tricky (was: Re: Air Force shows how meaningless Ada waiver process is) Ted Dennison
1994-09-08 20:16 ` John R. Cobarruvias
1994-09-13 9:46 ` Air Force shows how meaningless Ada waiver process is Richard A. O'Keefe
1994-09-13 16:14 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-13 20:14 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-14 2:46 ` Vendor bashing? Sort of Michael Feldman
1994-09-14 13:17 ` Mitch Gart
1994-09-15 13:28 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-16 15:26 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-16 1:56 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-16 14:16 ` Gregory Aharonian
1994-09-16 18:23 ` Quo Vadis Ada Market?(was Re: Vendor bashing? Sort of.) david.c.willett
1994-09-17 0:11 ` Vendor bashing? Sort of Robert Dewar
1994-09-18 14:02 ` Gregory Aharonian
1994-09-19 15:20 ` david.c.willett
1994-09-19 17:11 ` Kent Mitchell
1994-09-19 11:48 ` Ted Dennison
1994-09-19 19:16 ` Kent Mitchell
1994-09-27 4:26 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-27 16:38 ` Kent Mitchell
1994-09-14 14:30 ` Mike Ryer
1994-09-15 13:30 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-19 2:19 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-19 3:52 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-22 16:43 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-22 22:11 ` Richard Kenner
[not found] ` <35svf1$77i@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
1994-09-27 4:19 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-27 14:35 ` M3 Network Objects (Formerly: bashing? Sort of.) Anthony Gargaro
1994-09-19 19:20 ` Vendor bashing? Sort of Erik Naggum
1994-09-20 13:58 ` C++ bashing (was Re: Vendor bashing? Sort of.) -mlc-+Schilling J.
1994-09-20 21:51 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-24 18:53 ` Fred McCall
1994-10-04 16:03 ` -mlc-+Schilling J.
1994-10-04 18:44 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-05 14:24 ` -mlc-+Schilling J. [this message]
1994-09-14 13:49 ` Air Force shows how meaningless Ada waiver process is Christopher Costello
1994-09-17 12:40 ` Fred McCall
1994-09-22 17:15 ` Was... Air Force shows... Now... Vendor Bashing Chris Eveleigh
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