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- From: Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 15:00:52 +0000
- Organization: Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
- Message-ID: <3146E324.5C1E@lfwc.lockheed.com>
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- Peter Seebach wrote:
- >
- > They don't *manage* C applications. They facilitate builds. But I'd call it
- > hopelessly naive to consider make and C particularly closely related. make is
- > used to build documents from sources in nroff, TeX, or texinfo, make is
- > used to build programs from sources in Pascal, Ada, C, C++, Fortran, and
- > even sh. Make has nothing to do with C.
-
- I've built Ada applications for over ten years - I have NEVER, NEVER, NEVER
- had need of an add-on Make-type utility to do this, given the Ada library
- mechanism built into the language!
-
- (This, of course, being my POINT!)
-
- As to "Make having nothing to do with C," why did I watch someone use Make
- to build a C application yesterday? Was this person wrong? Does the C
- language define compilation order such that the compilers do it for you,
- without need of a Make-class utility?
-
- "make is used to build programs from sources in ... C"
- - and -
- "Make has nothing to do with C." !!!!!!!!
-
- There's gotta be a smiley missing somewhere in this!
-