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zabzonk on Oct 3, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Crafting Self-Evident Code with D

i'd just like to point out that cfront was not a preprocessor - it was what today would be called a transpiler - it compiled c++ code into c.

michaelcampbell on Oct 3, 2023 [–]

Sure, I tangented off parent's post.

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