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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:12:36 -0700
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:04:49PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> > Or why is BSD make used when the vast majority of Free Software developpers
> > use GNU make?
> 
> 1)	It actually works

You forgot the syntax is nearly the same as GNU Make.
(or rather both accept nearly the same syntax as the original Bell Labs
make(1)).

In the case of forth, the interpreter will accept nothing that looks even
vaguely simular to C/C++, FORTRAN, bourne shell, awk, or perl.

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