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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 14:22:06 -0500
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On Wednesday 04 February 2015, mskala AT ansuz DOT sooke DOT bc DOT ca 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.