From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!sii!wje
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Looking for a Macro Package
Article-I.D.: sii.156
Posted: Fri Sep 10 08:28:43 1982
Received: Sat Sep 11 01:28:44 1982
References: ima.215

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peaking of macro processors, there was one called stage2, developed
by Waite about ten years ago. Although I haven't used it for anything of
any importance, I have seen some rather impressive things done with it.
It's roughly of the class of awk, but more powerful (I've seen an optimizer
for assembler written in stage2 macros that does GLOBAL optimization!).

It was described in 'Implementing Software for Non-Numeric Applications'
by William Waite, Prentice-Hall.

What this leads up to is, we have stage2 written in C for Unix. If anyone
is interested, just tell me where to send it.

		Bill Ezell
		Software Innovations, Inc
		(decvax,ittvax,harpo)!sii!wje