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On Thursday 30 of August 2012 15:36:36 Jason Catena wrote:
> >>> anyway, a meld of Rc shell and mk? crazy idea.
> >> 
> >> Inferno (Vitanuova) released a "mash" a ways back, but apparently the
> >> sources were lost.  It was mind-bogglingly interesting!> 
> > In case anyone's interested (like I was):
> > http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/man/1/mash.html
> 
> I kept expecting to see the make-shell act proactively to create a
> file, if the shell encountered a reference to a file that did not
> exist in the filesystem, but for which it had a matching creation
> rule.  (...)

plumb(7), to some extent.


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dexen deVries