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Careful-- there only thing worse than no makefile is unmaintained and outdated makefile full of dark magic and obscure shorthands.
by throwaway290 4y ago
Careful-- there only thing worse than no makefile is unmaintained and outdated makefile full of dark magic and obscure shorthands.
- lnxg33k1 4y agoYeah but it's like a good reasoning valid for just about everything, like code that is undocumented or abandoned because people have left is just as bad, but that doesn't make us stop writing applications? Everything is good or bad depending on developer's attitude.. I don't really feel your point specific for Makefile or as discouraging about Makefiles..?
- throwaway290 4y agoIt does (or should) make us write less code if possible;) Not arguing makefile has value but I worked on legacy projects with makefiles that break in mysterious ways and in those cases I would take the same stuff with hows and whys spelled out in plain English instead!