Talk:Compiler/Simple file inclusion pre processor

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wrong language

This task would probably be more useful and help compare different languages better (the point of this site) if it handled the same syntax used by Compiler/Sample_programs, rather than ALGOL 68 processes ALGOL 68, C processes C, PL/1 processes PL/1, Phix processes Phix, etc. --Pete Lomax (talk) 17:35, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

You have a point, but by processing the actual language, it compares the language's pre-processor facilities and also how hard pre-processing the source is.
I strongly suspect that the syntax of Algol 68, PL/1 and COBOL (for example) makes the implementation harder than a C pre-processor would be, which was part of my motivation.
To pre-process Algol 68, PL/1 and COBOL for this task requires some level of lexical analysis, whilst a C pre-processor need only find lines that start with "#include" ( possibly with spaces before and after the "#" ). --Tigerofdarkness (talk) 18:25, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
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