POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Make it : Re: Make it Server Time
28 Jul 2024 04:16:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Make it  
From: Orchid Win7 v1
Date: 27 May 2016 13:56:26
Message: <57488a4a$1@news.povray.org>
On 27/05/2016 04:10 PM, dick balaska wrote:
> It's weird that in 2016 a 1980s program is still in charge of assembling
> large swaths of code. Ant /tried/ to take over, but that's even worse.

Make is a nice *concept*... sadly, the *implementation* leaves something 
to be desired.

(I want to find the person who decided to use tabs as part of the 
language syntax and BEAT HIM TO DEATH! >_< My text editor is rightly 
configured to strip all tabs and turn them to spaces, but then noooo... 
As soon as you want to edit a Makefile, you have to turn that off.)


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