Dennis Ritchie's grace

[The Cuthour]

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Do you think we have the ability to only recompile and relink modified
files? Thanks to Dennis Ritchie's grace, that is universally true, but
only in the context of structured programming. For example, in object-
oriented programming, if you make changes to a file, you may need to
recompile other dependent files that were not modified. In structured
programming, everything is fine.

The binary tools were written almost single-handedly by Dennis Ritchie,
simultaneously with the C language, UNIX, and a.out format. That is the 
Dennis Ritchie's grace. That grace extended to structured programming
in general, allowing languages like Pascal to benefit from it. However,
since the advent of object-oriented programming, no one seems to be
taking care of such conveniences anymore.

Somebody not interested in?