Comments on Latest OPC draft -- Miscellaneous areas.

[Rick Jelliffe]

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.)

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.

Rick

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 7:23 PM, Charlie Clark <
charlie.clark at clark-consulting.eu> wrote:

> Am .04.2018, 22:40 Uhr, schrieb Francis Cave <francis at franciscave.com>:
>
> The Oxford online dictionary defines the verb “preprocess”, and gives the
>> following example of its use in the gerund form:
>>
>
> 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.
>
> Charlie
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