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@Aqsaqal celebrating his latest PragProg release -
Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks

Let seven older, obscure languages open your eyes to new ways of thinking about programming, and change the way you code today.

pragprog.com/titles/dzseven

Feb 02, 2025, 01:40 AM·Public
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Mark Gardner

@pragprog @Aqsaqal #m4 is still the only way to *portably* script certain things in #Unix that the standard #POSIX shell can’t handle.

Temporary files, for example: it’s the only POSIX-compliant way to call the mkstemp() function without compiling your own C program.

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