Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?

On 25.03.2025 01:53, bart wrote:

 
I used to do that without makefiles! If you've been working on a project
for a year, then you know exactly what the dependencies are. [...]

This explains a lot (about you, about your projects). It's not what
non-trivial real life projects look like, obviously. - I wonder why
you insist (and re-iterate) that this mindset would be relevant for
professional software projects. It may "work" (sort of) for simple
things that you do, but to infer that your simple approach here is
of any relevance, as a sophisticated software development principle,
and ignoring the fundamental divide and conquer principle, which is
scalable and applicable for all project sizes, and especially for
the non-trivial ones, is beyond me. If you're working just on small
and the same (small) projects all the time, and also if you have no
co-workers, or both, then you have a very special case; suboptimal
private development habits may work for you but that's all. There's
just no reason to not use makefiles (or other dependency managing
tools) and let them decide what needs to be compiled [in no time].

Janis