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Coding is not building software. Programmers program. If you want to build software, you don't have to code. Just get the source. >$ ./configure >$
by Maursault 5y ago
Coding is not building software. Programmers program. If you want to build software, you don't have to code. Just get the source.
>$ ./configure
>$ make
>$ sudo make install #not war!
And that is how you build software. Let's stop confusing people by stealing words and trying to make them mean something else.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoAll feathers are light, therefore no feathers are dark.
- Maursault 5y agoSocrates was a man. I am a man. Therefore, I am Socrates. I am not making a category error. The OP has committed a malapropism.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoIt's an equivocation, not a category error. To build has many context-dependent meanings.
- Maursault 5y ago> It's an equivocation You are forcing me to agree, because... > In logic, equivocation ('calling two different things by the same name') is an informal fallacy resulting from the use of a particular word/expression in multiple senses within an argument. ...and that is also the OP's error. I am not calling two differing things by the same word, I am saying that in this technology space, "building software" has a specific meaning that has been convention for 40 years or more. I have never heard a programmer refer to programming, or software engineering, as "building software." It is confusing. Building software means "compiling from source," and that is what it has always meant. And the semantics here are pretty important, as the OP is really talking about writing software and not constructing software from source code. Writing software is composition. It is not building anything until what is written is compiled.