Switch to C Preprocessor

[scott]

AWKBot's awkpp is ineffective, inefficient, and difficult to fix. Therefor I'm going to suggest to myself that I migrate awkbot to use the GNU C Preprocessor instead. The suggested means for doing this is to create a startup sh script, which runs cpp with the appropriate flags - generating the source to temporary files. The temporary files will then be executed.

Risks

1. awkpp might be used by other people, this means no more maintenance
2. cpp's include directive works differently than awkpp's, will need to switch to import
3. temporary files will remain when program dies under certain conditions
4. additional dependency on outside world applications, and yet another reduction in awk usage

Benefits

1. No more awkpp.
2. Actual macros
3. No more out of memory awk errors
4. Less long running processes, awkpp currently pipes to another awk process and cpp will save it's output in a temporary file instead.
5. cpp is very fast

Additional

1. awkpp was kind of a silly, redundant idea to begin with.

[scott]

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