> On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 03:24:30PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > Just a small linguistic nit-pick: The name "Autoconf" comes from the > > shortening of "Automatic Configure", not of "Automatic Confiscate".
That's obvious, but the whole point of calling this "autoconfiscation" is a jargon for applying the whole toolchain on some inocent code base. On Saturday 21 February 2004 03:14, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > And the process is ireversable. Once you've done it you lose any hope of > having a readable makefile. Right on point -- we treat them just as a C programmer treats assembly files (important knowhow, but not everyday food), or as a veteran sendmail administrator treat 'sendmail.cf' (oh, how we used to write those files back when we didn't use M4...) -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron "We continue to live in a world where all our know-how is locked into binary files in an unknown format. If our documents are our corporate memory, Microsoft still has us all condemned to Alzheimer's." -- Simon Phipps ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
