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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: expert-friendly: are long names a waste of time?
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Date: Sat, 5-Nov-83 23:15:27 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  5 23:15:27 1983
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I would rather see 'compile' and 'debug' for ALL languages.  I mean,
why should YOU have to tell the computer what kind of language you
are using.  Really, talk about *useless information*.  Since, for
example, cc will only accept files ending in '.c' as C programs (it
passes '.s' files off to the assembler, '.o' files to the loader, etc.),
it comes pretty close to such a 'compile' command.  I should only have
to tell the computer ONCE what type of file I've got, it should remember
from then on.

=Spencer