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- From: gzhjis@ubszh.net.ch (Ian Johnston (by ubsswop))
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 17:23:37 GMT
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- In article <4iah20$p7k@saba.info.ucla.edu>, jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin) writes:
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- [...]
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- |> 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.
-
- Yes, make is primitive and often leaves a lot to be desired. But...
-
- Oh, I want the debug build.
- Hmm, now I need a profiled build.
- Let's see, I want the Solaris verion. No, the AIX version.
- Er, I need the NT version.
- Oh, and I might as well do the VMS version now too.
- Umm, I need to rebuild these IDL files; before that I need to run my
- Ada-to-IDL converter.
- By the way, we need the ACMS task list too. Better run that scanner.
- I just changed a header file. I'll run the C++ dependency finder now.
- Now, where was that package? I'll run the Ada dependency finder now.
- Oh, the library changed? I'll run the C to Ada package converter then.
- Er, I want to preprocess this C file, with all those cpp flags.
-
-
- |> 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)
-
- Too true.
-
- |> 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.
-
- grep ?
-
- Ian
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