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From: gzhjis@ubszh.net.ch (Ian Johnston (by ubsswop))
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/03/15
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In article <4iah20$p7k@saba.info.ucla.edu>, jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin) writes:

[...]

|> Right, make is mostly used to support development in C and other
|> primitive languages.  I have seen this piece of crap utility used for
|> all sort of braindead misuses.

Yes, make is primitive and often leaves a lot to be desired. But...

Oh, I want the debug build.
Hmm, now I need a profiled build.
Let's see, I want the Solaris verion. No, the AIX version.
Er, I need the NT version.
Oh, and I might as well do the VMS version now too.
Umm, I need to rebuild these IDL files; before that I need to run my
Ada-to-IDL converter.
By the way, we need the ACMS task list too. Better run that scanner.
I just changed a header file. I'll run the C++ dependency finder now.
Now, where was that package? I'll run the Ada dependency finder now.
Oh, the library changed? I'll run the C to Ada package converter then.
Er, I want to preprocess this C file, with all those cpp flags.


|>  Unix-ites seem to love to dp goofy
|> things with their utilities.  Heh, I have seen people using Lex and
|> Yacc to build parsers to read in simple tables.  Like swatting a bug
|> with a sledge hammer (they ever heard of "scanf"?), but they probably
|> felt so Computer Scientific doing it! (The journey is the reward)

Too true.

|> By the
|> way after 10+ years of using Unix I am having trouble thinking of a
|> standard Unix utility that is not a total misdesigned piece of crap!
|> Maybe someone can help me.

grep ?

Ian