Nick,
I have a copy of the FSF make manual: As our president used to say "I
recur to my former statement [about make documentation]." :-) I'll have
to check out the O'Reilly reference. See my rant below.
Roy
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Roy Wilson
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> http://www.gnu.org/manual/make/index.html
> It's not really that hard.
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Nothing is THAT hard once you have a context for new knowledge. For
example, once you know what a Banach space is (a normed linear space), it
is not THAT hard to understand what a Hilbert space is (a normed linear
space endowed with an inner product). Now you know what a Hilbert space
is, right? I don't take any pride in my "explanation" precisely because
it assumes knowledge that few non/new mathematicians have. If you have
that knowledge, I offer my congratulations/condolences. :-)
To begin to understand in a practical/computational way (yes, Dorothy,
economists and physicists do digital computation in Banach and Hilbert
space) the "explanation" I gave, however, you need to have worked with
simple abstract spaces like the vector space built on top of the set of
all continuous functions on the unit interval. Each continuous function
is like a point: You then define a distance function, consider sequences
of functions/points, convergence, topological completeness, etc. I would
only say that such work is not that HARD for those who already have the
context. My point was that most make documents I had seen seemed to
presuppose that I had that kind of contextual knowledge.
> But ant is much less opaque, to be sure. I think this is important and
the
> ant developers should be proud of this accomplishment.
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> Nicolaus Bauman
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