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

[Matt Gushee]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:03:29AM -0600, David Anselmi wrote:

> >  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.

Hmm, I suppose that makes some sense.

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