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From: john@assen.demon.co.uk.nospam (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: Conditional Compilation
Date: 2000/10/09
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"E. Robert Tisdale" <edwin@netwood.net> wrote:


>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.

That's news to me. If only I'd known that as a professional programmer
these last 13 years I could have saved myself some time!


Best Regards
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>