hi, > Target (goal) driven building is WRONG. It starts to fail > for even trivial projects in C, it fails completely and > utterly for anything non-C or even moderate sized or with > any kind of commercial objectives. > > It's really hard to tell one million programmers they're > all lemmings .. they all think building should be target > driven. But they're wrong, not matter how many of them > there are believing it.
Personally, this is exactly the kind of stuff I love to hear / come across; I want to know what the alternatives are that make more sense than the run-of-the-mill. (http://therightabstractions.wikispaces.com) Dunno that anybody other than me wants to get into a long discussion of this, but is there not a parallel with imperative vs. declarative in the programming language world? If declarative (which can be Prolog, or FP, I think, at least I guess i just mean non-imperative/procedural) is such good stuff then why can't it work for the build situation? [in my limited experience i often want to fall back to imperative commands for my build scripts, but i often wonder if that is just a lack of my own ability to imagine how to turn it into proper prolog-y statements. having said that, i also think that debugging goal-directed stuff can be a right blankety-blank nightmare.] sincerely. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
