Questions
- Java was designed to avoid having a preprocessor, despite resembling C/C++, which features a powerful preprocessor that is heavily used. What are some of the disadvantages of preprocessors that might have motivated the designers of Java to omit a preprocessor from their language?
- The promise of transpilers is to get a new language working very quickly without requiring any machine code. What are some of the limitations and pitfalls of this implementation approach?
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