What should be added to C

[Henry Spencer]

> ... The biggest change [in F77] was the IF (...) THEN ... ENDIF
> construct.  I don't know of *any* compiler which supported this before the
> standard came out; certainly it was not common...

It was in almost every Fortran preprocessor in existence, of which there
were dozens.  There was a lot of coding experience using them.  For most
of its users, a preprocessor counts as part of the compiler.
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