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M4(ID:766/m::002)

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Country: United States
Designed 1977
Published: 1977

Originally ratfor (Rational FORTRAN) preprocessor, developed from the general purpose M3 macroprocessor

Often used as a front-end for other systems, such as sendmail, autoconf in UNIX and GCOS
Related languages
M3 → M4   Evolution of
M4 → chpp   Dialect of
M4 → M5   Evolution of
M4 → PARMACS   Extension of
M4 → RATFOR   Preprocessor for
M4 → TINCMP   Subsumed
M4 → yodl   Influence
References:
  • Kernighan & Ritchie, (1977) Kernighan & Ritchie, "The M4 Macro Processor", Jul 1977.
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