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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:25:21 -0500
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire AT neurotica DOT com>
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On 02/04/2015 02:22 PM, al davis wrote:
>> By the way, why are m4 footprints deprecated in gEDA?  That
>> looks like a step backwards.
> 
> It's really a move forwards.  I think of m4 as the wire-wrap of 
> software.  It's a great tool for hacking and experimenting, but 
> I would not use it for anything permanent.  Years ago I used it 
> a lot to create the concept of a structure (C struct) in 
> FORTRAN.  Today, whenever I see m4, I have flashbacks of the 
> days when all scientific programming was done in FORTRAN.  I 
> have no desire to go back to that.

  Then you may be dismayed to know that quite a bit of it is STILL
written in FORTRAN, though it bears little resemblance to our old
friends FORTRAN-IV and FORTRAN-77.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3
New Kensington, PA