Macro Processors and Techniques for Portable Software

Download or read book Macro Processors and Techniques for Portable Software written by Peter John Brown and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1974 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macro processors: basic concepts; Special-purpose and general-purpose; The IBM OS macro-assembler; The PL/I macro processor; GPM and the TRAC language; ML/I and STAGE2; Communications between macros; Implementation; Uses and limitations; Compiler-integrated macros; Software portability; Use of macros for software writing; Some practitioners of DLIMPs; Making compilers portable; Families of descriptive languages; A portability project; Description of the project; The ALGEBRA system; The kernel of LOWL; Mapping and documentation; The LOWL Kernel test program; Listing of LOWLTEST; MD-logic and LOWL extensions for algebra; Listing of ALGEBRA; Testing an implementation of algebra; Writing software in LOWL.