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- From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
- Subject: Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms)
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- Date: 15 Nov 92 16:06:09 PST
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- In <1992Nov15.193847.8390@udel.edu>, carroll@balin.cis.udel.edu (Mark C. Carroll) wrote:
- > Herman, you're a liar.
- >
- > On at least three occasions, I have answered this ridiculous thread of
- > yours with a recommendation that you take a look at TXL. TXL will do
- > exactly what you want from a macro processor.
-
- Nuts, Herman once named such a processor in private mail to me. It was
- incomprehensible and had no documentation, but he seemed to like it.
-
- From what he's said, you don't need anything particularly powerfull.
- Any good template macro processor ought to be able to do what he
- wants. MORTRAN spring to mind, and it's 15 or 20 years old.
-
- <mike
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