From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d79d55198abf90d8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Conditional Compilation Date: 2000/09/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 671793595 References: <7FEFA9E5E3B3C4A5.90418F4BE7D5AE58.48E094CF81EC6BD3@lp.airnews.net> <39C7C748.4A533989@netwood.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 969400596 216.44.122.34 (Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:56:36 GMT) Organization: LJK Software NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:56:36 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-09-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <39C7C748.4A533989@netwood.net>, "E. Robert Tisdale" 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 !!!