Programming Question of the Week?

megaadam

Visual Studio addicts, Java people, and [other] kid sisters, please avert your eyes. If the Makefile is the Maker of all executable files, who is the Maker of the Makefile ?

... such stuff as dreams are made on

Jochen Arndt

I remember a CCC from this week that had the answer as solution.

Lost User

Where is my black cloak when I need it? No, makefile, I AM your maker! (pshhhht)

The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

OriginalGriff

These are not the makefiles we are looking for. Compile along.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

den2k88

The Real Programmer, of course.

DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani

Lost User

Now you have done it. I will need something like this[^] to play in an endless loop while I'm writing code. :-)

The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

Daniel Pfeffer

And who made the maker of the makefile? And who made the maker of the maker of the makefile? ... :)

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill

OriginalGriff

It's makers all the way down!

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

szukuro

[insert anecdote about the first C++ compiler being written in C++]

Rage

Actually a genuine question, since the first big milestone of a compiler is when you can compile it in the language you have programmed it for. :^)

Do not escape reality : improve reality !

Lost User

I once wrote a make script to generate Makefiles; so who's the Maker?. ;P

Herman T Instance

It is recursive!

In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.

Herman T Instance

King Richard!

In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.

Deepak Vasudevan

"An unhandled exception of type 'System.StackOverflowException' occurred in mscorlib.dll"

PIEBALDconsult

MAK files are too rigid; generating them at build-time saves a lot of tedious maintenance work. At the place I worked in the 90s they used "KAM" files to make "MAK" files.