%0 Journal Article %1 KernighanRitchie1977 %A Kernighan, Brian W. %A Ritchie, Dennis M. %C Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 %D 1977 %K macroprocessor macros manual %T The M4 Macro Processor %X M4 is a macro processor available on UNIX and GCOS. Its primary use has been as a front end for Ratfor for those cases where parameterless macros are not ad- equately powerful. It has also been used for languages as disparate as C and Cobol. M4 is particularly suited for functional languages like Fortran, PL/I and C since macros are specified in a functional notation. M4 provides features seldom found even in much larger macro processors, including ·arguments ·condition testing ·arithmetic capabilities ·string and substring functions ·file manipulation This paper is a user's manual for M4.

@article{KernighanRitchie1977, abstract = { M4 is a macro processor available on UNIX and GCOS. Its primary use has been as a front end for Ratfor for those cases where parameterless macros are not ad- equately powerful. It has also been used for languages as disparate as C and Cobol. M4 is particularly suited for functional languages like Fortran, PL/I and C since macros are specified in a functional notation. M4 provides features seldom found even in much larger macro processors, including ·arguments ·condition testing ·arithmetic capabilities ·string and substring functions ·file manipulation This paper is a user's manual for M4. }, added-at = {2007-03-21T15:22:47.000+0100}, address = {Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974}, author = {Kernighan, Brian W. and Ritchie, Dennis M.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/216c4df9763b5406ced597ac28352143c/tmalsburg}, day = 1, institution = {Bell Laboratories}, interhash = {34f38111d80eb8e3f74eddb565be4000}, intrahash = {16c4df9763b5406ced597ac28352143c}, keywords = {macroprocessor macros manual}, month = {7}, timestamp = {2007-03-21T15:22:47.000+0100}, title = {The M4 Macro Processor}, year = 1977 }