%0 Report %1 citeulike:6602212 %A Kernighan, Brian W. %A Ritchie, Dennis M. %C Murray Hill, New Jersey %D 1977 %K m4 68n15-programming-languages 68n20-compilers-and-interpreters 68u15-text-processing-mathematical-typography 68n19-other-programming-paradigms %T The M4 Macro Processor %U http://wolfram.schneider.org/bsd/7thEdManVol2/m4/m4.pdf %X M4 is a macro processor available on UNIX\dag and GCOS. Its primary use has been as a front end for Ratfor for those cases where parameterless macros are not adequately powerful. It has also been used for languages as disparate as C and Cobol. M4 is particularly suited for functional languages like Fortran, PL/I and C since macros are specified in a functional notation. M4 provides features seldom found even in much larger macro processors, including •arguments •condition testing •arithmetic capabilities •string and substring functions •file manipulation This paper is a user's manual for M4.

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