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From: bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:04:56 +0000
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On 25/03/2025 14:46, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:09:21 +0000
> bart <bc@freeuk.com> wibbled:
>> On 25/03/2025 08:40, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> 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.

And? I thought you said it didn't matter how long it took! Perhaps 
compilation time does matter after all...

> 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.

Fucking hell, you still don't get it. That single source file is 
MACHINE-GENERATED. Nobody's going to be even looking inside let alone 
trying to maintain it.

You might as well complain that a single EXE file is difficult to maintain!