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

On 25/03/2025 13:51, Scott Lurndal wrote:

bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

On 24/03/2025 16:17, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:

 

It's funny actually that you are in favour of the incremental builds
that makefiles help with. All about breaking things down into smaller
steps ...
>
... EXCEPT when it comes to edit-run cycles. There you're in favour of
bunching lots of changes together, and doing one big build followed by
testing a dozen different things on that new version. (As though this
was the 1960s and you only got one batch compilation per night.)

 EXCEPT nobody has claimed to be in favor of that.   You're making shit
up again.

This guy was:
On 24/03/2025 16:17, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
 > I'll paraphrase someone elses point - who fucking cares? If you need lightning
 > fast compilation because you're constantly rebuilding your shit code to see if
 > it'll even compile never mind work then that says a lot about you as a dev.
 > The thinking/writing to compilation time ratio I imagine with most devs would
 > probably be a minimum of 100 - 1, possibly much larg
Yet, you have to get on /my/ back?
Please stop that.