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I fiddled with TRAC in the mid-sixties.  I thought it was way cool.
I don't remember much, except that it stood for "Text Reckoning and
Compiling," it was a VERY pure macro string-replacmeent environment,
it had some of the flavor of things like the UNIX shells and the
C preprocessor and STAGE2.  I think the main superiority was that
it carefully distinguished between levels of quoting and expansion
in a way that most macro processors don't.  I believe \(expression)
would evaluate the expression and insert the resulting text, while
\\(expression) would evaluate it, RESCAN it, and insert it, or
some such.

I would suggest that maybe Peter Deutsch might know.  I seem to have
an email address for him:

   deutsch@SMLI.Eng.Sun.COM

which puzzles me, actually, since I thought he was working at PARCPlace...

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Daniel P. B. Smith
dpbsmith@world.std.com