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On Friday, August 14, 2015 at 2:30:29 PM UTC-6, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
> Right. It *is* a hell of a lot of maintenance -- that goes with the 
> territory -- and no one wants to build tools that help. (Conventional 
> version control is actively harmful in this, and the C "solution" of a 
> preprocessor is a guaranteed trip to unmaintainable spagetti code.) Of 
> course, it's possible that one *cannot* write a usable tool that would help 
> (I wasn't able to solve the problem adequately for our own use, and I have 
> tried).

I don't know, it sounds kind of like (tangentially, albeit) something that Wulf's IDL would address?  I'm actually starting work on something that could address this issue... but I would love to get your opinion/input.