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Re:Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taug... by meuk on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @04:03AM (#19907652)
> It's awesome that something so popular is so well engineered that it doesn't need changes.

There, fixed it for you. In particular, I'm glad that the OO cancer hasn't spread to something as basic as a build system.

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Re:Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taug... by m463 on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:02PM (#19933851)
What I meant in this respect is that a lot of makefile rules have a lot of commonality - it would be great to inherit a workhorse rule and tweak an option instead of having to copy/paste a rule or twiddle makefile variables (which aren't normal programming language variables)
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Re:Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taug... by x0hm on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:57AM (#19920014)
> Doesn't know how to write OO code. > Calls OO cancer.
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