Re: M4 in python

Marc Chantreux wrote:
> hello and thanks for replying,
In passing, may I mention that m4 as it is currently is a /tremendously /useful language which I have employed for 
decades in
auto-generating C, C++, Java, sh, Rexx, and other language files, both professionally and in Open Source offerings, e.g.,
in my PigIron <http://pigiron.sourceforge.net/> project.

Since esyscmd() was added in the 1990's, m4 has not needed /very /much improvement, merely maintenance.

I encourage each of you Young Pioneers to generate any m4-inspired code corpus that amuses you, but m4 itself /is what 
it is/,
and has been so more or less for about 40 years!

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