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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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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 age
>> 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 what=
 =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.

The novice programmer adds corrective code.
The master programmer removes defective code.

Enough said :)

--
Ludovic Brenta.