C + Make
Andrew Hume
andrew at alice.UUCP
Fri Sep 21 14:03:25 AEST 1990
In article <1326 at mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>, userAKDU at mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Al Dunbar) writes:
~ > <<stuff deleted>>
~ >BTW, why are the components called "dependents"? Seems to me that the
~ >target is the dependent because it depends on the components.
~ >
~ I find the terminology confusing too. Maybe they use "dependent"
~ because there is no such word as "dependee". Or maybe because
~ "dependable" would mislead programmers into thinking the code in
~ their "dependables" must be OK.
~
in mk, the terminology used is prerequisites, mostly to avoid
these problems.
andrew
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