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Very interesting comment. What older software should devs know about? My problem with Make and similar tools is I don't want to learn more ad-hoc syntax to acc

• bsenftner 4y ago
  Original Make was butt simple: any lines that begin without tabs are a filename followed by list of other file dependencies, files whose modified date must be older than the filename at the start of the list. Than any lines of text immediately beneath that first line starting with a tab character are the shell commands to be executed in order that brings the first file up to date against it's dependencies. That was it, that is the entire original Makefile syntax. Then software vendors started adding extensions...
• bsenftner 4y ago
  I guess as far as other, older software: I'd need to know your interests or field. How I write software has completely changed at least 5 times, and now I'm deep diving on my 6th (docker/k8s) to deliver the same things I was delivering back in the 80's with software development process one. Actually, add 3 more complete re-wiring of how I write code - I forgot working on game consoles: every new console is a complete start from zero how to write, debug, package and ship software, software that is not that much different than was delivered with the last platform and dev process.