Macro instruction extensions of compiler languages

M. D. McIlroy

Communications of the ACM · 1960 · 89 citations · 1 references

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Macroinstruction compilers constructed from a small set of functions can be made extremely powerful. In particular, conditional assembly, nested definitions, and parenthetical notation serve to make a compiler capable of accepting very general extensions to its ground language.

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