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Brown, P.J., "A survey of macro processors", Annual Review in Automatic Programming, 6, 2, pp. 37-88, 1969. Google
59 ;;Quote: all surveyed macro processors used predefined brackets to indicate macro calls
59 ;;Quote: delimitate macro calls by syntactic analysis of the entire text
62 ;;Quote: in call-by-name, arguments are evaluated only when needed; i.e., on insertion into replacement text
69 ;;Quote: a powerful macro processor can use macros in place of character variables QuoteRef: browPJ_1969 ;;71 "over and above the facilities described above, it is necessary to have the equivalent of what McIlroy calls created symbols"
74 ;;Quote: high level languages allow one operator to generate many operations and one operand to indicate many attributes QuoteRef: browPJ_1969 ;;81 should allow statements within statements -- eg complex add as part of expression
81 ;;Quote: GPL macro processor can expand an expression into multiple statements
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