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Question regarding origin of cpp - the C preprocessor #38

Closed dibyendumajumdar closed 3 years ago

dibyendumajumdar commented 6 years ago

Hi David,

I was wondering if you could share the history of the cpp C preprocessor. Was this written specifically for lcc?

Thanks and Regards Dibyendu

rofl0r commented 6 years ago

"history was" ? that's not english

dibyendumajumdar commented 6 years ago

Thanks for catching the typo. I found this which probably answers the question:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.std.c/Xw5H8TlQ4W4/deq8iZ6exvUJ

polluks commented 5 years ago

@dibyendumajumdar you may close this issue.