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Has anybody continued work on M5 (by the late A. Dain Samples)? |
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22 May 2002 21:46:28 GMT |
I've been looking for a tool that combines the multiple file
output and documentation capabilities of WEB-based software with the more
powerful macro handling of m4. One use I was thinking of was to write generic
function interfaces in f90 and simultaneously generate C header files.
In looking around the web, I found a reference
to M5, first announced in 1992 on comp.compilers by A. Dain Samples. M5
purported to be a new, general purpose macro language that contained many
improvements over m4. Unfortunately Dr. Samples met an untimely death some
years back (see http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/~brucem/samples.html ).
I've looked at the documentation and code and there are many interesting and
useful features that are deserving of further development. But I don't see
any indication that someone has continued work on the project. As a non-CS
fortran programmer, I have neither the time nor ability to do so myself. And
before picking up a tool to use extensively, I'd like to be sure that it isn't
orphaned.
Anybody out there working on M5 (the Samples version) at present?
Documentation on M5 is available at
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/ncstrl.ucb/CSD-91-621
and the source code can be found at
ftp://ftp.ececs.uc.edu/pub/m5.tar.Z
Comments or alternative recommendations welcome.
Ted
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