Make is a build automation tool created by Stuart Feldman at Bell Labs for the Unix operating system. It reads a file called a Makefile that lists targets, the files they depend on and the commands needed to build them, and it rebuilds only those files whose sources have changed, saving large amounts of time in software projects. Feldman wrote it after a colleague wasted time debugging a program that had not been recompiled properly. Make became one of the most widely used developer tools, and many versions and successors exist, including GNU Make. Feldman received the ACM Software System Award for it in 2003. One of its best-known quirks is that commands must be indented with a tab character.
Before and after
- 1 February 1976Death of Werner Heisenberg
- 3 March 1976Construction of Khalifa International Stadium
- 22 March 1976Birth of Reese Witherspoon
- from 24 March 1976 to 10 December 1983National Reorganization Process
- April 1976Invention of make
- 1 April 1976Founding of Apple Inc.
- 26 May 1976Death of Martin Heidegger
- 26 June 1976Construction of CN Tower
- 4 July 1976Entebbe raid
More in Science & technology
- 1949Discovery of berkelium
- 1955Discovery of mendelevium
- 14 February 1961Discovery of lawrencium
- 8 December 1994Discovery of roentgenium
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
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