> That's how it has always been, though. In the '90s you didn't need to run Perl or Tcl through it because you weren't compiling anything. The Venn diagram of "Platforms that have make" and "Popular compiled languages" comes up with only asm/C/C++.

Pascal/Delphi were wildly popular in the late 80's, early 90's, though. I don't remember it being built with make, though.