gcj -D

Tue Oct 19 13:11:00 GMT 1999

Per said:
> Most general purpose programming languages are *not* with pre-processors,
> at least not standard. In fact, I can't think of any common ones that
> do, except C, C++, and Objective-C. PL/I had pre-processing. Some languages
> (the Lisp family, Dylan) have macro processors, but they work at a higher
> lever, and are less common.
>> Ada, Pascal, Eiffel, Modula-2, Modula-3, Chill, ML, ...
> As far as I know, none of these have standard prc-processors. A number
> of these languages are used for embedded systems.

Of course, you're right - a long time ago I had to program a controller
in machine code without even an assembler, so it's definitely possible
to write embedded code without a preprocessor. It's simply a matter of
what makes life easier.
I'd hazzard to guess that #ifdef might also be useful for maintaining
different variants even outside the embedded sphere - but I'll defer to the
knowlege of those more experienced in Java than myself.
Thanks for the response!
Mike.