GNU M4

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Project Summary

GNU M4 is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor. It is mostly SVR4 compatible although it has some extensions (for example, handling more than 9 positional parameters to macros). GNU m4 also has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc.

In a Nutshell, GNU M4...

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has had 3,717 commits made by 16 contributors
representing 78,580 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by nobody
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 20 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in February, 2000
ending with its most recent commit over 5 years ago

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