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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Why no socket package in the standard ?
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On May 25, 9:36=A0am, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> Yannick Duch=EAne wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>
> > Peter C. Chapin a =E9crit:
> >> It also true that autoconf is a travesty... a throwback to a darker ag=
e
> >> when the POSIX standard did not exist (or at least was not widely
> >> implemented).
>
> > I do not know that much about Autoconf, so I can't really understand wh=
at =A0
> > that mean and implies (someone else here also say a bit the same as you=
 =A0
> > too).
>
> Make was invented to overcome the deficiencies of C, notably the lack
> of modular programming and dependency management.
>
> Automake was invented to overcome the deficiencies of make, notably
> the poor maintainability of Makefiles.
>
> Configure was invented to overcome the deficiencies of early UNIX
> systems, notably the lack of conformance to POSIX, and their impact of
> the maintenance of Automake files.
>
> Autoconf was invented to overcome the deficiencies of Configure,
> notably the sheer size and horror of the configure scripts, which
> routinely consist of hundreds of thousands of lines of illegible POSIX
> shell code.

I was going to ask what was the invention to overcome the deficiencies
of autoconf, but I think I figured it out ... rm -rf, right?

                            -- Adam