Jonas Maebe wrote: > > On 17 Jul 2006, at 16:01, Daniël Mantione wrote: > >> We should design a system that does solve world hunger. I'm serious about >> that: if we want to be a more professional tool than C, we should not >> copy >> the defficiencies. Makefiles are one of them, Autohell is another, and >> I consider this one such a thing as well. > > I think all this "competing with C" and not-invented-here syndrome is > downright silly, along with all the claiming that most bad things come > from C.
So you will claim that auto* tools and configure scripts are a good design ? > If anything, it comes mostly from the standard Unix design > philosophy (small, well-delineated tools which perform their core > function and *only* that core function). No these are separate things. The C compiler vendors do not provide a common platform resulting in a differing mess that has to be held together with scripts. These differences do not add expressive power as the unix tools allow when combining them in a smart way. Micha _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
