Re: Traditional cpp and assembler, revisited

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> The primary reason for going with m4 is simply that m4 allows a
>> number of things to be done more sanely.
> I don't recall anything at all about m4 being sane.

m4 is theoretically sane and practically gross.  cpp is the converse.

The only times I prefer m4 are when I want to do something fairly
complex, something for which full-fledged language power wins over
practical ease of use - for example, cpp does not support generating a
macro definition within a macro expansion; m4 does that just fine, but
that's not needed except for the msot complex applications.

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