I recall a hearing a seminar a few years ago by a computer scientist, about getting physicists and other non-CS people to write better software. He mocked one

I recall a hearing a seminar a few years ago by a computer scientist, about getting physicists and other non-CS people to write better software. He mocked one physicist who had defined a shell file called "make" that simply contained the one line cc *.c How clueless can one be? Except... that's a perfectly reasonable approach to compiling your program if it's small enough that this takes only a few seconds - ie, if your program has no more than about 50,000 lines of code - and there's nothing more complex to be done than compile a bunch of C source files. Physicists have better things to do with their time than learn about "make" just so they don't get mocked by computer scientists.