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Re:Switching to C over 'Modern' Programming Languages by flohofwoe on Friday April 14, 2023 @03:13AM (#35566454)
Preprocessor macros are an entirely valid tool in the C language toolbox, even if demonized by C++ coders.
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Re:Switching to C over 'Modern' Programming Languages by pjmlp on Friday April 14, 2023 @04:54AM (#35567129)
Even Macro Assemblers from the MS-DOS and Amiga days are better than C pre-processor macros.
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Re:Switching to C over 'Modern' Programming Languages by melagonster on Friday April 14, 2023 @02:06PM (#35572679)
it is black magic, absolutely respect C developers.
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Re:Switching to C over 'Modern' Programming Languages by flohofwoe on Saturday April 15, 2023 @05:58AM (#35579127)
But the preprocessor is just simple text replacement, nothing magic about it.
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