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  • noun computing program that processes its input data to produce output that is used as input to another program

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From pre- +‎ processor.

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  • #include is known as a preprocessor directive, which is used to load files .. indicate the start and end of file name to be loaded .. you can use "" quotes too instead of

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • What about something like a #pragma preprocessor that would involve a string so that when the user uploaded the code to LP, LP would recognize it and enable Rosetta translations automatically?

    Planning For 10.10: Growing Our Translations Community | jonobacon@home 2010

  • Also, maybe I could write a preprocessor to replace any comments with white space.

    Refactoring in Scala Jack Cough 2009

  • Also, maybe I could write a preprocessor to replace any comments with white space.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Jack Cough 2009

  • In April 2007, Gregorio reached a certain maturity and can start to be used, at least its command line interface, as a preprocessor for OpusTeX.

    Archive 2007-12-01 bls 2007

  • In April 2007, Gregorio reached a certain maturity and can start to be used, at least its command line interface, as a preprocessor for OpusTeX.

    More Chant Software bls 2007

  • It requires some additional coding, but with using of some cleverly preprocessor symbols, the C preprocessor can be used to do most of the work.

    Miriam Ruiz 2007

  • For now it can only be a powerful preprocessor for writing scores in OpusTeX.

    More Chant Software bls 2007

  • Whereas in C, you can't define anything that looks like if bar a few limited hacks with the preprocessor.

    Snell-Pym » Syntactic sugar in s-expression languages 2007

  • For now it can only be a powerful preprocessor for writing scores in OpusTeX.

    Archive 2007-12-01 bls 2007

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