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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Mon,  8 Nov 2010 22:33:44 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 development
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>the intention was to support building both inside and outside the Inferno environment,

oh. and just like Plan 9 mkfile's and for the same reason, Inferno's mkfiles were
essentially concise lists of the names of inputs and the names of outputs, with few instructions,
which suited my little brain.

``My last company switched to nmake, and they're OUT OF BUISINESS :-) :-) :-)''
[fortune]