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Re:Literate builds? by contingencies on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @12:06AM (#6435904)
"Oh yeah? And who made you the literati?" :)

Totally correct, actually. Makefiles are the cruft of ages distilled through a minimum of ten little-understood tools of the ancients, classically employing a minimum of four distinct languages. Some replacements have been popping up of late... scons seems nice.

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Re:Literate builds? by malandrew on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @01:28AM (#6436166)
I'd love more details on your comment. What ten little understood tools and what four distinct languages?
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Re:Literate builds? by contingencies on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @01:41AM (#6436209)
Haha. It was more in jest as a caricature. You know... sed and awk are usually in there somewhere. bc. Some formal grammar from a parser generator or other. Maybe some document build system. Plus the core language(s) of the source code. Some obscure shell indirection or trickery. And perl, for good measure.
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