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> C++ is a preprocessor, nothing more. Check how the original C++ compiler was
> implemented.
As Bjarne Stroustrup himself has said time and again: cfront (the first C++
compiler) was a true compiler, that generated C as object code purely for
portability. No preprocessor like f.ex. RATFOR, which just translated a bit
of the input (control structures, mostly) and let the rest pass untouched.
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