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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: how to tell gnatmake to send executables to a different directory
 when compiling multi source?
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:08:19 -0400
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Date: 2012-08-02T11:08:19-04:00
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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

> Well, apparently it assumes that #include is used for every needed
> library - and nothing /requires/ that in the C standard. An
> undisciplined programmer could copy lines instead of #including them,
> and then all tools will be fooled.

I don't think that's a very strong criticism of C.  Yeah, you're right
that it's not required to use #include properly, but every competent
C programmer does so.  It's not like you can do it wrong by accident.
Compare to (say) array indexing, where it's easy to accidentally
go out of bounds.

Of course I agree that a language with a proper module system is better.

Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I copy lines instead of #including them."
Doctor: "So don't do that."

- Bob