[Simh] Proposal for a new make system

Richard legalize at xmission.com
Tue Mar 10 17:34:34 EDT 2009


In article <C819D8ED-B14E-44FC-8442-3BAC4057DE2A at telegraphics.com.au>,
    Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au>  writes:

> Yeah but even more valuable than the automatic cite is practical  
> experience of why recursive make doesn't work - since this paper,  
> unfortunately, appears to lack power to convince.

Wow!  You beat that straw man into submission with great finesse!

The paper doesn't claim that recursive make doesn't work.

If you read the paper, you'll understand the reasoning.  Have you?
Because I have and its immediately obvious what he means by "recursive
make considered harmful", just like its immediately obvious by what
Dijkstra means when he says "goto considered harmful" in his famous
letter to CACM.

At any rate, this discussion is getting far afield of matters directly
related to SIMH.
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