Chambers wrote:
> That's the idea behind metaprogramming, after all.  You write something 
> that gets turned into code for whatever your actual situation is :)

And if the metaprogramming was built into the compiler, I'd agree that C 
is nicely portable.  :-)

C isn't portable. C + autoconf + the dozen tools that autoconf depends 
on + knowing all the arcane invocations you need to include to use 
autoconf is what's portable.

I mean, heck, 6502 assembler is portable, if you write a program to 
interpret it on a bunch of other machines, yes?

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