Re: Confused about build proceedure srcdir vs objdir

[Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy dot com>]

"John Love-Jensen" <eljay@adobe.com> 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...