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

Douglas McIlroy douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu
Tue Dec 17 00:21:57 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
t> hen reimplemented it in Ratfor for "Software Tools".

> Arnold

The book says colorfully, "... [and] we are grateful to him for
letting us steal it."

Doug


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