[racket-dev] Caching rendered icons

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think that it was on the r6rs list that during some macro-related
>> flame I posted something about invoking a C compiler as part of a
>> macro expansion, and someone replied that it sounded crazy.  (I think
>> that the argument was that macros should really only do simple
>> `syntax-rules'-like things.)
>
> My mad-scientist advisor has actually done this. (I'm going to keep a tally
> of the number of times I write that.) I used it once to make building an FFI
> easier. What was it called... "Super C"? Not terribly portable, but very
> cool.

https://github.com/jeapostrophe/superc

I use it every year teaching PLAI so I can give little C examples.

Jay

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