Comment by imtringued
2 days ago
Yeah. It's exactly backwards, because good language design doesn't make anything except parsing faster. The problem is that some languages have hideously awful grammars that make things slower than they ought to be.
The preprocessor approach also generates a lot of source code that then needs to be parsed over and over again. The solution to that isn't language redesign, it's to stop using preprocessors.
The preprocessor does not necessarily create a lot of source code in C. I can, if you expand arguments multiple times and there is an exponential explosion for nested macros, but this also easy to avoid.