Macro vs Macrosystem - What's the difference?
macro | macrosystem |
Very large in scope or scale.
(programming, computing) A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complicated input to a computer program.
A programming system in which small constructs (macros) represent groups of machine instructions
As nouns the difference between macro and macrosystem
is that macro is (programming|computing) a comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complicated input to a computer program or macro can be (photography) macro lens while macrosystem is a programming system in which small constructs (macros) represent groups of machine instructions.As an adjective macro
is very large in scope or scale.macro
English
Etymology 1
1933, from .Adjective
(-)Etymology 2
1959, shortened form of macroinstruction.Noun
(en noun)- The pre-processor expands any embedded macro s into source code before it is compiled.