<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div> <br><br></div>The form without a hyphen goes back to 1974's cpp (C pre processor) and probably before (Jackson's JSP front end for COBOL around 1970 was called a preprocessor.) <br><br></div>When I asked about hyphens and editorial policyhe 1990s, I was told it was not ISO style to favour hyphens in suffixes or noun phrases. This is a mistake, ugly, and US usage. But nevertheless, it was the guideline in SC34 back then. <br><br></div>Rick<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 7:23 PM, Charlie Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charlie.clark@clark-consulting.eu" target="_blank">charlie.clark@clark-consulting.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Am .04.2018, 22:40 Uhr, schrieb Francis Cave <<a href="mailto:francis@franciscave.com" target="_blank">francis@franciscave.com</a>>:<br>
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The Oxford online dictionary defines the verb “preprocess”, and gives the following example of its use in the gerund form:<br>
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Specifically within the context of computing (another gerund), preprocessors are commonplace, and hence preprocessing is that which is done by them. I suspect the origin maybe the pipelines and processes that were developed for work on batch systems before data would be handed over for "processing" on the system.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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