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Awk is actually great. M4 not so much. Some absolute lunatic solved this year's Advent of Code in m4; it was impressive.
by na85 5y ago
Awk is actually great. M4 not so much.
Some absolute lunatic solved this year's Advent of Code in m4; it was impressive.
- erik_seaberg 5y agoTerraform module args used to be very limited, and I didn’t know how to generate JSON it would take instead of HCL, so I actually used m4 to avoid repeating every template n times. And now we are sad because of course Terraform has improved quite a bit.
- na85 5y agoI used to contribute to an ultima online emulator and I definitely used awk to generate C# classes from a CSV file.