gcj -D

[Andrew Haley]

> 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.