Of Editors and Makefiles (was Re: [CLUE-Tech] LINUX Programming Fundamentals)

[David Anselmi]

Matt Gushee wrote:
[...]
> But anyway, looking at the page I notice this passage regarding
> makefiles:
> 
>   The first character on the command line must be a tab. 
> 
> Are you *serious*? Not just whitespace, but a an actual tab character? I
> have to know what genius came up with that, and what they could have
> been thinking.
> 

Well, make has been around a long time.  Probably a more sophisticated 
parser wasn't feasible.

Dave