Re: [school-discuss] Free-Open Baccalaureate Idea

[David Bucknell <david@members.iteachnet.org>]

No arguing here. I was honestly asking what the point was -- I use make but have
never used Ant -- just ignorance talking here.

I'm awed by the knowledge you all have.

Meanwhile, "start now" sounds good and you've done that.

David

Quoting Yishay Mor <y.mor@ioe.ac.uk>:

> Oh dear, we're not going to have a religious war here, are we? Ant vs. 
> make, perl vs. Java, Zope vs. JBoss, please - tell me this is not going 
> to happen here!  
> 
> This is starting to feel too much like alt-computers-languages.. ;-)
> 
> *I* happen to use Ant, I like the way it works, I like the syntax (yes, 
> better than Target: dependency).  That's just me, for what it's worth. 
> But let's be honest: there was only one makefile written ever, and there 
> was only one ant build.xml, the rest is just cut & paste.
> 
> I agree with Massimiliano. We all share the vice of getting emotionally 
> attached to stuff we've written, be it code or text. IMHO, that's one of 
> the good things about Wiki-s: they make your text transient.
> 
> Anyway, enough entertainment.  "start now!"
> 
> best,
> 
> - Yishay
> 
> David Bucknell wrote:
> 
> >What's the point? That no one uses ant?
> >
> >I love this: "Start small, start easy, and
> >above all start now.''
> >
> >David
> >  
> >
> 
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