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Vinzent Hoefler writes on comp.lang.ada:
> Maciej Sobczak wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Could you please share the source of your information? I'm genuinely
>> interested.
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Feldman>
>
> 1977, Bell Labs, UNIX, first FORTRAN 77 compiler.
>
> I'd suspect, this compiler wasn't written in FORTRAN itself, so the
> logical conclusion would be that the compiler was witten in C (like
> almost anything for UNIX, especially at that time) and thus 'make' was
> written to simplify the task of compiling those compiler's sources. ;)

And that leads to http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch15s04.html:

| Make originated with a visit from Steve Johnson (author of yacc,
| etc.), storming into my office, cursing the Fates that had caused him
| to waste a morning debugging a correct program (bug had been fixed,
| file hadn't been compiled, cc *.o was therefore unaffected). As I had
| spent a part of the previous evening coping with the same disaster on
| a project I was working on, the idea of a tool to solve it came up. It
| began with an elaborate idea of a dependency analyzer, boiled down to
| something much simpler, and turned into Make that weekend. Use of
| tools that were still wet was part of the culture. Makefiles were text
| files, not magically encoded binaries, because that was the Unix
| ethos: printable, debuggable, understandable stuff. -- Stuart Feldman

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.