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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Why no socket package in the standard ?
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Maciej Sobczak wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> On 25 Maj, 18:36, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
>
>> Make was invented to overcome the deficiencies of C, notably the lack
>> of modular programming and dependency management.
>
> Umm, no.
> Make is a general-purpose project management system that can be used
> to manage any file-system related build activity. Compiling C programs
> is one of the most trivial and boring things that make can be used
> for.

I know (I've used make myself for such purposes) but that does not
change anything to what I wrote.

C was designed as a systems programming language, by and for kernel
hackers, and was used as a general-purpose language.  Similarly, make
started as a hack to overcome the deficiencies of C and was then
extended for other, more general uses.

--
Ludovic Brenta.