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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Peter da Silva writes:

>>Why not making a m4 macro package like in sendmail?
>
>Because it's actually easier and more convenient to do it in tcl. This
>sort of custom metalanguage is what tcl is designed for:

tcl syntax is silly. The manpages are really bad (compared to
perl). tcl is actually a package and not in bindist.

Wolfram