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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
> If the compiler is doing multiple files, especially a slow compiler,
> then it is highly useful to know where it's up to, or what it's stuck
> on.
>
> But this seems to be a Linux thing: if I do 'cp *.c dest', then
> nothing is output, until you get the prompt back. So, did work, did it
> copy anything, was it one big file, or lots of small ones?
>
> If I do 'copy *.c test' on Windows, it shows each file copied, and it
> tells how many files were copied in all. The 'cp' command needs '-v'
> to force to show what it's doing.
>
> The defaults are backwards.
[...]

I acknowledge that you prefer tools to be verbose, and that you have
perfectly valid reasons to want a compiler to show what it's doing and
for a file copying program to print the name of each file as it's
copying it.

Please acknowledge that others have valid preferences that differ from
yours.  I'm not even asking you to understand why, or to like it, just
that different valid preferences exist.

Or don't.  Up to you.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Will write code for food.
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */