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From: rhl@grendel.Princeton.EDU (Robert Lupton (the Good))
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Subject: Re: R5 and Imake
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Date: 10 Aug 90 13:20:40 GMT
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The more I learn about Imake the more times I come across admissions
that things are made extra-specially-convoluted to avoid unhappy habits
of cpp. 

There are public domain cpp's around (e.g. the decus one on the X11
tape), so why oh why doesn't someone simply hack up the source to do it
right -- where right means without the need for /**/'s to insulate
Makefile comments, and worries about spaces turning into tabs at the
drop of a hat (or back at the drop of another hat).

I'd volunteer, except that I'm not that familiar with imake... Maybe
another fun project for poor Paul DuBois?


			L&K,
			
				Robert