From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harry Putnam To: Subject: Re: Confused about build proceedure srcdir vs objdir Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:10:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <871yjph1ay.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87vgh0go6q.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <005901c16078$7efa7610$c019f882@mneljaypc> X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00283.html "John Love-Jensen" writes: > The computer programmer jargon that you are complaining about *is* the > terminology for those computer programming components. So you'll have to > excuse using computer programming terminology in regards to computer > programming. When did building an application become programming? I must not have been looking. All this time I thought the programmers wrote the sources for us non-programmer slobs. Jargon is objdir, srcdir non-programmer slobs, that is, people likely to build the application provided by a programmer. May not know, or need to know programmer terminology. Scanning the nearest University for programmer books seems a bit far fetched when the documentation can be written in plain english and be just as informative. I proposed no language including thingamabobs or the like. > When I talk to my auto-mechanic, and I describe the whatchamawhozits > that rubbing against the thingamabob... I understand why he becomes > a bit confused as to what is the actual problem. Its usually only the novice or poorly trained mechanic that can't understand a laymans complaint. > I recommend any introductory computer science book from your local > university. I suspect a mechanic sending perspective customers to a school so they can learn to talk to him may not be such a great boost for his mechanic business. Maybe you should rethink your analogy...