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From: scott@tg.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Rebuttal to Mr. Russell Nelson's complaint about SPL
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Date: Sat, 9-May-87 01:54:49 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  9 01:54:49 1987
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In article <7374@boring.mcvax.cwi.nl> guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) writes:
>	A translator does *full* lexical and syntactical analysis, while a
>	preprocessor leaves part of this kind of checking to the processor
>	(compiler/interpreter/...) of its output language.
This sounds pretty much what Ratfor does, especially the versions from the
Software Tools Users Group.  If this is true, then why is Ratfor still called
a preprocessor?

Scott Barman
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