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		grive on March 1, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects > Ah I see, you have a file "new 2.txt", I was a bit confused. This is highly ironical, given this thread. Some people seems to advocate for programs to be better than humans at globbing filenames.

jstimpfle on March 1, 2018 [–]

That's a great point. Computers sure have the potential to deal with spaces just fine. But if textual interaction is a requirement, we can only have one of arbitrary filenames and clutter-free syntax.

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