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- From: jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 01:27:28 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
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- rlk@rational.com (Bob Kitzberger) writes:
-
- >: 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.
-
- Right, make is mostly used to support development in C and other
- primitive languages. I have seen this piece of crap utility used for
- all sort of braindead misuses. Unix-ites seem to love to dp goofy
- things with their utilities. Heh, I have seen people using Lex and
- Yacc to build parsers to read in simple tables. Like swatting a bug
- with a sledge hammer (they ever heard of "scanf"?), but they probably
- felt so Computer Scientific doing it! (The journey is the reward) By the
- way after 10+ years of using Unix I am having trouble thinking of a
- standard Unix utility that is not a total misdesigned piece of crap!
- Maybe someone can help me.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Jay
-