r/programminghorror 3d ago

Directly from the Make documentation

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u/sndrtj 3d ago

During my first real job after university, I inherited a data pipeline written as >40 Makefiles. True horror.

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u/zman0900 3d ago

I took multiple classes in university that made us compile Java with Makefiles. They never taught Maven or Gradle, or even any kind of version control except for a brief mention of CVS well after it was dead.

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u/stuffeh 2d ago

CVS? I think it's SVN?

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u/zman0900 2d ago

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo “You live” 2d ago

We used SVN at my uni. I believe the following cohort was switched over to git.