From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,56d944aeed1e3792 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: rlk@nubuddy (Bob Kitzberger) Subject: Re: Now Unix sucks, too! Date: 1996/03/15 Message-ID: <4icf0p$opi@rational.rational.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 142837746 references: <9603151509.AA01824@eight-ball> organization: Rational Software Corporation newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-03-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Bob Crispen (revbob@EIGHT-BALL.HV.BOEING.COM) wrote: : Jay Martin sez: [...] : > I am having trouble thinking of a : >standard Unix utility that is not a total misdesigned piece of crap! : >Maybe someone can help me. : No, I don't think so, Jay. I suggest you cherish your prejudices and : every now and then bring them out to polish them. Pretty much what : you're doing now. : The *real* reason I wrote is to say that I use Makefiles pretty : extensively with Ada. I don't have a top-ten list of reasons, but I : do have three: Yes, I understand that make has its uses, but that doesn't mean that Jay is wrong in claiming that it's a misdesigned POC ;-) -- Bob Kitzberger Rational Software Corporation rlk@rational.com