| W. Miller and E. W. Myers, "Side-effects in Automatic File Updating", Software - Practice & Experience, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 809-820 (1986). |
.... by those software developers whose basic tools are a text editor and a compiler, thanks to its remarkably low entry threshold (simply creating and using a two line make file can bring immediate benefit to anyone working in a compile test edit cycle) Its shortcomings have been treated at length [Mill86], although it almost suffices to say that they stem from . lack of referential transparency in the configuration items (the primitive and derived files) target item prerequisite item . action . to (re)make this . first (re)make these iff necessary . then execute these 6.2 The ....
W. Miller and E. W. Myers, "Side-effects in Automatic File Updating", Software - Practice & Experience, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 809-820 (1986).
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