From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 03:25:17 -0500
From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk
Subject: the licence
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>>If you can rewrite a code generator in less time than you can throw
>>out a set of makefiles for a smallish source tree and rewrite some
>>simple ones to replace them, then there's something wrong, and it's
>>not with Perl.

funnily enough, it turns out that i can really can write and debug
code generators in much less time than it takes me to work out what
a config script (not for Perl) is doing to do to a collection of Makefiles, and
what the Makefiles will do when i run them, given that the output
of `make -n' is a cascade of shell `if' statements
(and this is on Unix, not Plan 9).