Software development shell

[Phil Gustafson]

In article <3906 at okstate.UUCP>, jmaag at a.cs.okstate.edu (John Maag) writes:
> 
> To whom it may concern:
> 
>     I am writing a shell that will assist students in the software
> development process. What the shell will do is automate the make
> process. It will automatically [do lots of stuff]
> 
> John Maag

May I suggest caution?  There's a fundamental rule of automation that
says "Everything automatically done _for_ you simultaneously does
something unpredicted and usually unpleasant _to_ you."

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