@dalias @wyatt8740 @unnick and why is it that people...

@dalias @wyatt8740 @unnick and why is it that people c&p a bunch of garbage rather than writing their own .ac file, Rich?

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Rich Felker

@whitequark @wyatt8740 @unnick Because the whole thing is fairly opaque, uses an obscure language, and the docs on how to make decent use of it are unofficial and hard to find especially after the burning of search...

No intent to blame anyone just theorize on how things got this way.

28 May at 9:29 | Open on hachyderm.io

✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

@dalias @wyatt8740 @unnick honestly even ten years ago I found it rather difficult to figure out how to write .ac files

28 May at 9:29 | Open on mastodon.social

Dan Cassidy 🦌

@dalias @whitequark @wyatt8740 @unnick no it uses three different opaque languages at the same time, in the same source file

28 May at 11:23 | Open on chitter.xyz

Janne Moren

@whitequark @dalias @wyatt8740 @unnick
Good question. Writing one for yourself really isn't difficult. Yes, you do need to take a look through the documentation, but apparently cut and paste is less effort.

28 May at 10:39 | Open on fosstodon.org

✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

@jannem @dalias @wyatt8740 @unnick it's one of the most obscure and user-hostile pieces of software in the world; of course it _is_ difficult, especially if you don't already have the skills for it

28 May at 10:40 | Open on mastodon.social

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