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- From: rlk@rational.com (Bob Kitzberger)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
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- Date: 14 Mar 1996 17:35:34 GMT
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- The Amorphous Mass (robinson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu) wrote:
- : On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Ken Garlington wrote:
-
- : > 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." !!!!!!!!
-
- That is a bit like saying that the guillotine had nothing to do with
- the French Revolution.
-
- : make is a _general_purpose_ utility. It _can_ be used to manage C
- : projects, or it can be used for a whole host of other things. How is
- : this hard to understand? Does ADA provide its own OS, its own editor and
- : its own hardware so that you never need to use anything else?
-
- I don't think that anyone is having difficulty understanding your point.
- Make is indeed general purpose, but its roots are in the C/Unix
- culture, and those roots show.
-
- (there was an all-Ada OS, editor, and hardware... the Rational R1000.
- Of course that wasn't defined in the language ;-)
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- Bob Kitzberger Rational Software Corporation rlk@rational.com
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