Other Mandelbrot set renderer written in pure Makefile.

[baaz]

GitHub - b-aaz/bmake-extravaganza: Pushing BSD-make to places it was not designed for.

Pushing BSD-make to places it was not designed for. - b-aaz/bmake-extravaganza

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This is a Mandelbrot set renderer, written in pure BSD Makefiles, with no calls to ANY external binaries.
This project started after I was reading a bunch of the port system's Makefiles, and I realized that the language is actually computationally universal, so I had to write something to try it out, and here we are!

I was on the edge on putting this in this sub-forum or off-topics, I hope it is OK here.

 

[baaz]

 

[kpedersen]

This is very cool. Bookmarked to present next time someone says Make is too restrictive

My general statement about make is that it can always do exactly 99% of the task required but no more. And that last 1% is a massive ugly pain in the butt. With your experience of this project, have you noticed similar?

 

[doul]

root@Z600:~/code/bmake-extravaganza # cloc .
      30 text files.
      28 unique files.                             
      10 files ignored.

github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 2.08  T=0.04 s (720.5 files/s, 74369.4 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language                     files          blank        comment           code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
make                            27            114            194           2473
Markdown                         1             13              0             96
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM:                            28            127            194           2569
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

[baaz]

This is very cool. Bookmarked to present next time someone says Make is too restrictive

My general statement about make is that it can always do exactly 99% of the task required but no more. And that last 1% is a massive ugly pain in the butt. With your experience of this project, have you noticed similar?

This project was basically just delving in that 1% XD.
Floating point arithmetic, infinite loops, arbitrary calculations ...

But bmake also has some hidden, unique, solutions for some problems, I for one didn't know that you could print out a variable cleanly to stdout, mid-parsing, by mixing the -v flag and .MAKEFLAGS: special target, I learned that while doing this project.
The "dot-prefix" special targets and variables are definitely a great and IMO underrated tool.

 

[baaz]

2473

To be frank, 900 lines of that is the reciprocal initiation table for division, 100~ lines for the multiplication table, and 400 lines for the addition and subtraction tables, so there would be about 1000 lines of actual logic code.