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Subject: Re: is getting OpenGL to work with Ada a lost cause?
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:

> "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:

>> ...What
>> else would one use? a DOS batch file?
>
> OK, you win.  ;-)  DOS batch files are worse than 'make' files.

I had to work on a large project (several hundred source files, mainly
C, spread over several tens of directories) that was built using
recursive CSH scripts. Someone's job insurance, I think.