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

[Yishay Mor <y.mor@ioe.ac.uk>]

Oh. sorry.

My point was that I used make, until I found Ant, which eliminates all I 
hated about make.  I think Massimiliano sees things differently. never 
mind.  I suggest that if anyone is interested in discussing  ant / make 
further, we take it off the list.

- Yishay

p.s.

Don't be impressed by my knowledge.  I'm sure that if you would have 
been enslaved by the software industry for as long as I was, you would 
know just as much.

David Bucknell wrote:

> 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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