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From: RAF@NIHCU.BITNET (Roger Fajman)
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Subject: Re:  memo on my structure assembler macros
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> Gaak... Looks almost like PL/360.. ;)

Only superficially, I think.  As I recall PL/360, it uses a lot of one
or two character operators to represent the instructions.  ALP uses
regular machine instructions and macros, with the addition of the
special control structures (which generate only branching
instructions).  It's probably the Algol-like syntax that makes you
think of PL/360.  I didn't care for PL/360 either.  :-)

By the way, one of the advantages of ALP over a macro package is that,
being a preprocessor, it can (and does) have control structures for
macro definitions too.  They generate AIFs and ANOPs.