Apropos make's idiosyngracy, I stand *nix-biased because I respected that rule since the beginning. I never complained about it! And to be frank, I have rarely been bitten by it and the remedy was painless. I guess, for me, idiosyngracies like this can be tolerated if the coding is super complicated (the logic or the language) and counting spaces allows you some time to subconsciously contemplate your code. In fact, it can be an advantage. Here is a field for research.

Reading your linked On Interfaces and APIs I realised I had forgotten to mention XML. All is well. I can safely leave out that bureaucratic invention and admit it in the hall of fame as a rare example of the format being lengthier than the content.

bw, bliako

In reply to Re^3: A good way to input data into a script w/o an SQL database by bliako
in thread A good way to input data into a script w/o an SQL database by ObiPanda

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