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From: Jeff Allen <jallen@SPAMM.example.com>
Subject: Re: Conditional Compilation
Date: 2000/09/19
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Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> 
> In article <39C7C748.4A533989@netwood.net>, "E. Robert Tisdale" <edwin@netwood.net> writes:
> 
> > The typical C compiler accepts a translation unit
> > and compiles it into assembly language code
> > then calls the assembler to generate machine code.
> 
> > Now, professional programmers almost never write
> > programs in Ada, C, C++ or any other standard
> > computer programming language directly.
> > They usually use perl, the m4 macro preprocessor,
> > the sed stream editor or some combination of tools
> > to write programs for them from "prototype files"
> > which they maintain instead of source files.
> 
> You live in a strange different world !!!

It was humor!!!