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by mahmud 5841 days ago
I worked on a project that had a directory named "manuel" and contained 8 C files and a file named "make.sh". I always thought it was some guy's private playground and shouldn't be touched. But once I dug into it I discovered a NIH implementation of Docbook + Doxygen + Markdown + grep + strings, and make.sh did what Makefile would have done, use make. And 'manuel' never existed, the French comments alerted me to guess what it really meant: Manual.
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And of course, "manual" means, "by hand". :)