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From: dcw@coral.emspnc.att.com (dcw)
Subject: Re: Now Unix sucks, too!
Date: 1996/03/18
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Date: 1996-03-18T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <4ii4pl$9ga@parlor.hiwaay.net>,
Bob Crispen <crispen@hiwaay.net> wrote:
>rlk@nubuddy (Bob Kitzberger) wrote:
>
>>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 ;-)
>
>Now just wait, I say wait, a dogbone minute there, boy.  (Remember the
>last time I started a post out that way and the idiocy it contained?
>Well you ain't seen nothin' yet!)
>
>make is a TRADITION!  It's like not having the dashes in tar or the
>syntax of sed and awk.  Dang!  Without SOME traditions there'd be no
>need for a priesthood!
>
>This younger generation!  No respect for traditional values!
>
>Bob Crispen
>crispen@hiwaay.net
>
>

Putting a somewhat more serious spin on what Bob said, it is well to remember
that make has been around for quite some time and was a piece of breakthrough
technology at its inception.


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                            (formerly AT&T's systems & 
                             technology business)
                            Greensboro, NC	USA


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