On: An opinionated approach to GNU Make

[agumonkey]

People should be a little more forgiving. Even after reading emacs Manual thoroughly 3 times, I still managed to miss a ton of nuances and information. Same goes for make or other large old tools I guess.

[falcolas → agumonkey]

Make is not emacs. Its nowhere in the same stratosphere as emacs other than being under the GNU umbrella.

And being forgiving of not understanding the docs requires someone to read the docs in the first place.

[agumonkey → falcolas]

I'm sorry but it's the same pedagogical limit that gets hit. You read 50% of the manual, integrate 20% of that.

Most of the time I needed two or three passes in different context to start to really grasp a tool domain.