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On 18-Aug-14 15:49, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> What else would one use? a DOS batch file?


Ideally it would be part of the programming environment itself, handling 
dependencies ant the like essentially transparently; one of the reasons 
we're stuck using such crappy toolchains is because of the low-level 
view of the underlying system: an excellent example is source-files -- 
why would you want to have these stored *natively* as text? that's a 
/huge/ step down from storing it as some sort of datafile (eg an AST) 
with real rules/formats.

Make and the like tend to be terrible because of (a) stupid formats 
(e.g. make-file's tab, ANT's XML, etc), and (b) deep flaws in the design 
(e.g. GPR's project variables, ANT's XML, etc).

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Here's a good paper on GNU's Make's flaws:
http://www.conifersystems.com/whitepapers/gnu-make/