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   Andrew Kelley (andrewrk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 09:24:38 JST Andrew Kelley

   when a C/C++ programmer says "no dependencies" it means they have copied unknown versions of various dependencies into a particular subdirectory of their project.

   you can learn a lot about the author's personality by what directory name they choose.

   "vendor" -> web developer adjacent
   "deps" -> uncomfortably self-aware
   "thirdparty" -> unskilled grifter
   "common" -> sneaky

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     Canageek (canageek@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 16:22:07 JST Canageek

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     @andrewrk Heh. I'm not a programmer, but the only program I know to make that claim is written in Fortran, and the first version came out in the early 70s (major rewrites in 1997 and 2010), so I believe him, since who's code was he going to copy in the early 70s? It was distributed by mailing boxes of punch cards to you!

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 16:24:32 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Canageek
     @Canageek @andrewrk Well I'm the kind of person that documents the required toolchains as part of dependencies, so at least one fortran compiler and probably some kind of OS (which typically comes with some libraries but not all of them standard).
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     Canageek (canageek@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 00:45:37 JST Canageek

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan @andrewrk the original was written on a minimal set of Fortran because the author didn't know it very well, and it ran on quite a few different os's each of which would have had their own proprietary compiler back then, because it used such a minimal subset of the language it was quite easy to do that.

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     Andrew Kelley (andrewrk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 14:01:09 JST Andrew Kelley

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     alternate joke:

     what they say: no dependencies
     what they mean: over half of the project's line count by volume was written by Sean Barrett

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