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Re: gcj -D
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- Subject: Re: gcj -D
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at pasanda dot cygnus dot co dot uk>
- Date: 18 Oct 1999 17:27:50 -0000
> From: Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
> Date: 18 Oct 1999 10:14:06 -0700
>
> Most general purpose programming languages are *not* with pre-processors,
> at least not standard.
Indeed. I've always thought of C's pre-processor as an anachronism
due to its early incarnation as a somewhat high-level assembly
language.
In C, you couldn't even do:
const size = 20;
int a[size];
In contrast, Java is designed not to need a preprocessor.
Andrew.