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4.1 Motivations for the FiST Language

The motivations for creating the FiST language are as follows:

The C preprocessor (cpp), in comparison, is not able to conditionally generate sophisticated code. It is more suitable for code expansion from small, static templates.



Erez Zadok
1999-12-07