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it speaks very poorly of the unix ecosystem that nothing to replace m4 with a more sensible syntax has become widely available. If the unix CLI isn't going to
by llimllib 5y ago
it speaks very poorly of the unix ecosystem that nothing to replace m4 with a more sensible syntax has become widely available.
If the unix CLI isn't going to slowly rot away, it needs to pick up improved versions of tools like this and start getting them into wide distribution.
- ape4 5y agoI agree, something better has to be possible. Maybe it could begin with some simplifying assumptions to reduce the complexity of quoting.