←back to thread

Be Aware of the Makefile Effect

(blog.yossarian.net)
431 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 11 Jan 25 04:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
Show context
jappgar ◴[12 Jan 25 04:35 UTC] No.42671306[source]▶
I dunno they're using copy-paste as if it's a bad thing.

There's no virtue in writing something character by character.

If anything these languages and systems are better for the Makefile effect.

That you can't really do effective copy-pasting in imperative languages is a weakness.

replies(1): >>42672445 #
1. stefr- ◴[12 Jan 25 09:58 UTC] No.42672445[source]▶
The author mentions that copy-pasting code by itself is not a bad thing. The problem with the phenomena they describe is that people copy-paste files around because they _don't understand it_, and end up with stuff that works, but is inefficient and hard to debug.