• muzzle@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Preprocessing source code is an awful idea and I wish it never became widespread.

        I used to hate semantic whitespace, but I came around when I was using it anyway.

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          1 year ago

          Oh bummer… I was so glad believing somebody understood the m4 joke.

          Text preprocessors for code are awful. But the m4 + python combo is so full of landmines that I’m wondering if I should try it.