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		edanm on June 21, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Less.js will obsolete CSS Thanks for that, never heard of that. Link for anyone interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_(computer_language). By the way, I really think that to work (i.e. become usable, maybe even popular), this needs to be built on an existing and popular language. Otherwise it's too steep a learning curve. Ideally, I'd like to be able to put in code in the text file wherever I want, be able to put the value of expressions in the code, and that's it.

vog on June 23, 2010 [–]

M4 is not as unpopular as you might think.

It is the base of GNU Autoconf, so everyone who touched a configure.in / configure.ac file did in fact work on M4 code.

(... which is then expanded to a portable shell script also known as the ./configure script.)

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