Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!alice!andrew
From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C + Make
Message-ID: <11366@alice.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 90 04:03:25 GMT
References: <BEVAN.90Sep10220041@rhino.cs.man.ac.uk> <1326@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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In article <1326@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>, userAKDU@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Al Dunbar) writes:
~ >  <<stuff deleted>>
~ >BTW, why are the components called "dependents"?  Seems to me that the
~ >target is the dependent because it depends on the components.
~ >
~ I find the terminology confusing too. Maybe they use "dependent"
~ because there is no such word as "dependee". Or maybe because
~ "dependable" would mislead programmers into thinking the code in
~ their "dependables" must be OK.
~  


in mk, the terminology used is prerequisites, mostly to avoid
these problems.
	andrew