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

[John R Levine]

On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> "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. :-)

You might want to update the Wikipedia articles.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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