From: utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!johnl
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Looking for a Macro Package
Article-I.D.: ima.215
Posted: Thu Sep  9 10:24:16 1982
Received: Fri Sep 10 06:35:29 1982
References: unc.3918

     GPM for General Purpose Macrogenerator was written by
Christopher Strachey about fifteen years ago.  He wrote an article
on it in the Computer Journal (the major British computer magazine,
most tech libraries have it) volume 3 or 4, I think.

     GPM was no big deal and was about as powerful as the C
preprocessor, although the style was quite different.  It looked a
lot like Trac language, developed independently by Cal Mooers about
the same time.

     The structure of GPM was simple enough that it looked like only
a day or two's work to implement.  I would be interested to hear
from anybody else on the net using interesting macroprocessors,
particularly Trac.  (If you're using a PDP-11 Trac processor, it
probably has my fingerprints on it.)

John Levine, decvax!cca!ima!johnl, harpo!esquire!ima!johnl (uucp)
	     Levine@YALE (Arpa), 617-491-5450 (desperation)