On 14:42 30/05/04, Scott Moore wrote:
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So, anyway, believe you me that a Pascal programmer (providing she hasn't been under a rock for the past, oh... decade or so?) will have, at some point in their programming experience come across the term `make' in the context of this discussion. Not only that, but that same programmer will at least have a vague (but usable) idea of what `make' in this context means.
[same here]
Finally, I occasionally use a Pascal automatic builder, a make file, and even a shell script file to build Pascal programs, different solutions for different reasons.
Okay, I know my last message wasn't exactly cohesive, but I honestly cannot figure out out how your reply is related to my message at all.
I wasn't talking about the `Build' menu item in Borland's Pascal IDEs; I didn't even mention it. I know that building things in the Pascal sense isn't the same to what make does, but I don't recall saying that I did or didn't.
In short, I don't ever recall mentioning anything about Pascal-build. What I wanted to say was that `make' is a familiar term even to your normal, everyday Pascal programmer, with `highlights' of my programming `career' thrown in for a background.
I think I can even remember a `Make' menu item in a Pascal IDE, although I can't clearly remember which, since it has been a while since I've used a Pascal IDE. It's probably Virtual Pascal's, though...
So I would not want "make" to do anything I don't expect make to do.
Same here; probably because what the things I don't expect make to do are things make doesn't do.