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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Subject: Re: Why no socket package in the standard ?
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Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 07:44:42 -0400
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Date: 2011-05-27T07:44:42-04:00
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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:

> On 26 Maj, 14:42, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
>
>> Similarly, make
>> started as a hack to overcome the deficiencies of C
>
> Sorry, but here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_%28software%29
>
> there is nothing about it. Any references to C in this article are
> qualified with "for example", which is in line with what I've said.

The "Origin" section (which is what we are talking about) is very short,
and implies (as Ludovic said) that 'make' was originally written to help
compile C code (since that was the primary language on Unix at the
time).

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-- Stephe