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- Path: fnnews.fnal.gov!kriol
- From: kriol@fnal.gov (Oleg Krivosheev)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 23:03:28 GMT
- Organization: FERMILAB, Batavia, IL
- Sender: kriol@martian (Oleg Krivosheev)
- Message-ID: <4i7k80$64@fnnews.fnal.gov>
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- To: Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com>
-
- Hi,
-
- |> > 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?
-
- Yeah... And two days ago i watch person who use Make to build a FORTRAN code.
- And today i watch myself using Make to build elisp code. What's the point here?
-
- |> "make is used to build programs from sources in ... C"
- |> - and -
- |> "Make has nothing to do with C." !!!!!!!!
-
- Make is some tpe of management utility which use set of rules in order to
- build target. It doesn't know about in what language the target was written.
-
- cheers OK
-