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Make — a program for maintaining computer programs
Author(s) -
Feldman Stuart I.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380090402
Subject(s) - unix , computer science , simple (philosophy) , set (abstract data type) , programming language , trademark , computer program , software engineering , operating system , software , philosophy , epistemology
Good programmers break their projects into a number of pieces, each to be processed or compiled by a different chain of programs. After a set of changes is made, the series of actions that must be taken can be quite complex, and costly errors are frequently made. This paper describes a program that can keep track of the relationships between parts of a program, and issue the commands needed to make the parts consistent after changes are made. Make has been in use on UNIX UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories. systems since 1975. The underlying idea is quite simple and can be adapted to many other environments.