On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 12:26:45PM -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
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> Doug's points about the candle not being worth the penny--the
> performance gain of stripped macro files is minimal--and that
> removing comments for the sake of efficiency passes the cost onto
> users, who generally have to acquire the commented/indented files
> separately for debugging and tweaking, are both valid.
>
> I'll wait to see if anyone else weighs in on this. If not, I'll
> rename om.tmac-u to om.tmac and remove the strip.sed bits from
> mom.am.
>
See article nr. 47 from 5th November 2017 in the groff list ("What
does the "-u" in ".tmac-u" mean?").
People are so busy writing statements, that they do not pay attention
to the task ("problem"(?)).
It is not the stripping, or have I missed that "central" point(?).
It is not about how many percents of time (which is _very_ relative)
is saved using stripped versus unstripped.
There is no need to stop stripping.
Define a variable, for example "UNSTRIPPED_TMAC_FILES=...om.tmac-u"
(in the file mom.am (?))
Add that to the target "install:" in the Makefile... .
Other additions are appropriate, for example for uninstalling.
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"You must unlearn what you have learned". Yoda in "Star Wars. The
Empire Strikes back".
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The only known cure for ignorance is education
E. C. McKenzie "14,000 Quips & Quotes for Writers & Speakers".
Greenwich House, New York. 1984.
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At the rate we're going, the day may come when everybody has a college
degree and nobody has an education.
E. C. McKenzie "14,000 Quips & Quotes for Writers & Speakers".
Greenwich House, New York. 1984.
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Education means developing the mind, not stuffing the memory.
E. C. McKenzie "14,000 Quips & Quotes for Writers & Speakers".
Greenwich House, New York. 1984.
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People are that animal on Earth, that causes the most harm (damage).
People are thus the most harmful animal, which makes them the most
dangerous one.
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"People will rather die than think."
Not quite right. They want to live, but:
People will rather cause harm (including get _other_ people killed)
than think.
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