Re: But WHY are you "Re-executing" yourself, you fucking wanker?!!

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From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: Re: But WHY are you "Re-executing" yourself, you fucking wanker?!!
Date: 15:15 on 20 Nov 2006
> 2. "it's about ten zillion times harder to use Make as a scripting language
>>     than to run a script to handle an edge case, so leave all that fancy stuff
>>     in gmake alone, 'kay".
>>
> 
> Are you saying one shouldn't use fine features such as Lazy Evaluation of 
> Variables, Looping Facilities such as $(foreach), Powerful Ways of Manipulating 
> Text (I'm quoting `info make' - that's it's title to functions such as 
> $(firstword)), and the Advanced Macro Definitions (reverse = $2 $1)? I can't 
> imagine a reason for such hostility.

The following tangent is not so much a software hate than a people hate:
people using gmake features for no good reason should be sentenced to
port any GNU configure file into VMS' DCL, or possibly into VMS REXX.

> 

There's stuff above here

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