Oh gawd. m4 and the sacrificial chickens used to compile sendmail.cf's and such. That's a nightmare I've left in my past... ;-)
Mark On 01/31/2016 11:27 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > I was thinking about using "m4". It is a macro processor that is already > on every Linux/Unix system and I think all Macs too. > m4 will copy its input to its output except when it sees a macro which it > will expend. while expanding a macro it can run any shell program or use > it's own features. So a trivial m4 file would be just one line that reads > "hello world". I think M4 wins for having and shortest posable hello > world program. I could us Java or Perl or whatever but I'd just be > re-implementing m4. > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Mark <wendt.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 01/30/2016 08:57 PM, craig wrote: >> .... >>> Being almost undocumented my code would not be much use to anyone else >>> but the approach might. >>> >>> craig >> >> Birds of a feather I would say. I did kinda the same thing with Perl. ;-) >> >> Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
