ROFLMAO!!! So many years compiling, configuring, running and managing sendmail, I would tend to agree with Mr Altman. I have probably as many scars as you, Jerry. ;-)
Mark On 02/01/2016 12:59 AM, Jerry Scharf wrote: > Eric Altman, author of sendmail said that he received "a lifetime of > loathing for the use of m4." m4 could probably do it, but it will be the > most obtuse, write only code imaginable. Been there, done that, have the > scars. > > jerry > > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> > 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
