From: smirzo@example.com   
      
   kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:   
      
   > Salvador Mirzo   wrote:   
   >>kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:   
   >>   
   >>> We even got a guy with a PhD in CS from a university that I had previously   
   >>> thought reputable who had never used a command line and who just could   
   >>> not understand how make works in spite of the O'Reilly book.   
   >>   
   >>What O'Reilly book?  Are you saying the PhD was an O'Reilly-published   
   >>author?  That would be literally incredible.   
   >   
   > No, I mean that when he didn't know what make was, we handed him the   
   > O'Reilly book about make.  Because that's how you learn things that   
   > you don't know in the Unix world.  It did not seem to help.   
   > He continued trying to write sequential build scripts using make.   
      
   Oh, I perfectly understand now.  (Thanks.)  I read ``make'' as a verb in   
   that phrase.  Yeah, it makes sense that someone with no make experience   
   (at all) could misuse it.  He likely didn't have any experience even   
   with competitors such as gradle or whatever.  Pretty sad story: as I   
   discovered flaws in my education, I felt hurt---people wasted my time,   
   made a fool out of me, hurt me emotionally and so on; not as a   
   conspiracy against me, but as a matter of course.  I feel lucky to have   
   noticed it throughout the process and not at too many decades later.   
      
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