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To: Erasmus
Date: Winter ‘63. Computer: IBM 1620. Peripherals: 28K extended core, 1407 card reader/punch, 402 accounting machine. Translator: Forgo (simplified 2-pass Fortran, all cards) Program: “Hello world!”

You F**king rock!

I remember learning the 'WHOAMI' command in Unix and LMAO.

59 posted on 07/29/2012 4:29:38 PM PDT by Looking4Truth (Leave it to some angry, frustrated liberal do-gooder to screw things up for the rest of us.)
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To: Looking4Truth

There is a program on Unix called “make.” (Windoze systems have versions of it now too.)

Make is designed to automate the invocation of the translator system (e.g., C compiler and linker) of a project consisting of numerous source code modules. Once you write a control script for it for a specific project, make keeps track of what files need to be retranslated in order to do a build of the project, and then invokes the translators accordingly.

It is common to invoke make with a command line parameter consisting of the name of one of the files you want to specifically retranslate. If you specify a file that is not listed in the control script, make will terminate with an error message to you.

In older versions of make (but sadly not newer ones), it was fun to type the following command:

make love

and the program would respond with

Don’t know how to make love. Stop.


75 posted on 07/29/2012 5:46:29 PM PDT by Erasmus (Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
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