From: utzoo!decvax!cca!HOLSTEGE@Cit-20@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re:  Re:  Re:  C extensions
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4365
Posted: Wed Nov 24 01:39:43 1982
Received: Thu Nov 25 13:00:15 1982

Date: 21 Nov 1982 1921-PST
The program which takes commands for remaking a file from the file itself
dles not care about the commenting convention; it cares about the % at the
beginning of the line. Thus any language which can make multiline comments
can use the method. I do not claim that this supercedes Makefiles, just that
it forms an intermediate step between typing ths "cc" command line every
time you want to recompile, and make. Clearly make is what you want for 
large projects which live in their own directory, but it isn't really 
suitable for one file programs which, even so, have a fairly complex
compilation/loading/installation procedure, which is frequently hard 
to remember.
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