On 2021-09-08, charles hottel <chot...@earthlink.net> wrote: > So what do yoy think or feel about a language like RATFOR (Rational > FORTRAN) which was implemented as macros?
The RATFOR implementations I've seen weren't done using macros. It was a preprocessor, yes. But it generates code for the various structured statement types (while, for, if/then/else) and source structures (open/close brace) the way a compiler does, even though the generated code is FORTRAN66 rather than assembly or bytecode or whatever. > Should they instead have simply adapted themselves to FORTRAN? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
