**Zach Banks** @zbanks@mastodon.mit.edu · May 05, 2018, 01:31

**Zach Banks** @zbanks@mastodon.mit.edu · May 05, 2018, 01:31

Zach Banks @zbanks@mastodon.mit.edu

1. All difficult problems in computer science can be reduced to DAGs.
2. GNU Make is pretty efficient at solving DAG problems.
3. Therefore, you should use GNU Make to solve all of your difficult problems in computer science.

**Erin 🕯** @er1n · 2018-05-05T01:33:47Z

Erin 🕯 @er1n

@zbanks if you end up with a solved difficult problem in computer science, and you want to unsolve it, try git! it's really good at unsolving DAG problems

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**Zach Banks** @zbanks@mastodon.mit.edu · May 05, 2018, 01:35

**Zach Banks** @zbanks@mastodon.mit.edu · May 05, 2018, 01:35

@er1n make and git are truly yin and yang

**Zach Banks** @zbanks@mastodon.mit.edu · May 05, 2018, 01:38

**Zach Banks** @zbanks@mastodon.mit.edu · May 05, 2018, 01:38

@er1n do you think I can trick git into being a build system?

**Erin 🕯** @er1n · May 05, 2018, 01:39

**Erin 🕯** @er1n · May 05, 2018, 01:39

@zbanks what if you reset + remerged every build and used... merge hooks or something to invoke build jobs