Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!bruce From: bruce@graffiti.UUCP (Bruce Jilek) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Make - What is Efl? Message-ID: <122@graffiti.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 18:14:58 EST Article-I.D.: graffiti.122 Posted: Tue Mar 18 18:14:58 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Mar-86 05:46:55 EST References: <121@graffiti.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Information Brokerage Network, Houston, TX Lines: 15 > In _Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs_ by S.I. Feldman > (Unix Programmer's Manual 7th ed., vol. 2), a program suffix '.e' is > described. It means that the source is an Efl source file. > > What is 'Efl'. Sorry if this is old material. I discovered that I didn't > know 'make' as well as I thought, and studying this paper brought up the > question. > > Bruce Jilek I answered my own question by reading through the Berkeley 4.1 Unix Programmer's Manual. Another article by S.I.Feldman describes _The Programming Language EFL_. It stands for 'Extended FORTRAN Language'. Why doesn't the all world's knowledge come in one handy reference :-).