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Generate is a text preprocessor that I originally wrote to help me write
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custom accounting applications based on the Progress database product. I
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felt that the built in wasn't useful enough so I designed a new one and
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implemented it. It actually started life as a package configuration and
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batch file generator for DOS and mutated to a simple script interpreter
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to replace shar file distribution. At this point it has almost nothing in
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common with that first program.
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The basic idea behind generate is to create a script which generates files.
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There is some simple flow control constructs but the power lies in its
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macro processing. I have shamelessly stolen ideas from cpp, m4, make and
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David Tilbrook's dtree.
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