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[–] ChrysanthemumIndica@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 hours ago

Does GNU make count? It's crazy what you can do with the macro expressions, basically a Functional language using only string types. There's even a math "library" that will do arithmetic with numbers in strings.