[TUHS] M<some number> macros, wasRe: SCCS

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Mon Dec 16 16:39:05 AEST 2024


"John Levine" <johnl at taugh.com> wrote:

> M4 was written in the 1970s by Kernighan and Ritchie in C ...

In private mail, BWK told me that it was DMR who wrote m4. He
then reimplemented it in Ratfor for "Software Tools".

Just to set the record straight. :-)

Arnold


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