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From: Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:46:22 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:09:21 +0000
bart <bc@freeuk.com> wibbled:
>On 25/03/2025 08:40, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
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>
>>> For that matter, why do YOU use a makefile when your full build is only
>>> 0.8 seconds?
>> 
>> Modularising code is far more than just about compilation speed which you'd
>> know if you had anything approaching a clue.
>
>You can modularise code without also needing a makefile!

IYYM you can build modularised code without it. Sure , sometimes, so long as
the modules don't have varying compilation dependencies. But then you end up 
rebuilding everything.

>> The stone age is where they used one huge source file for a program.
>
>Maybe they also used one huge binary for a program.

Listen sonny, in large projects in companies - ie not the toy code you work
on in your bedroom - different people will have checked out seperate modules
and be working on them at any one time. Thats a lot simpler than having one
huge source file that then has a boatload of merge issues when a dozen people
all try to check their changes back in.

>You're either fucking stupid or an incredibly successful troll.
>
>No matter how many facts you're given you ignore the ones you don't like 
>and twist things around to make some smart-ass comment.

When you get a dev job in the real world get back to me.