its a pretty amusing joke... (code/geek humor)

[Carruth, Rusty]

Ah, I think you're right - it was on either Solaris or SunOS that I last had it work!

 Rusty 

> -----Original Message-----
....
> 
> I don't think GNU make ever had that particular feature turned on by
> default.
> I did get that to work at least once, but I can't remember if it was
> with FreeBSD or Solaris or SunOS.
> 
> There's a list of Unix commands that you can type in that have
> funny/silly/unexpected results at
> http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~steinl/vitser/unixfun.html .  F'rexample, start
> a csh and type:
> 
> If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what would I have?
> 
> ...however, thanks to improvements and changes in csh and sh over the
> years, not all of them produce the error messages they used to.
> 

Ah, yes, but they don't even have it right.  It was actually:

% make love
Not war
%


Rusty