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Comment by poincaredisk

7 months ago

I disagree. Make is - at it's simplest form - exactly a "simple plain shell script" for your tasks, with some very nice bonus features like dependency resolution.

Not the parent, bit I usually start with a two line makefile and add new commands/variables/rules when necessary.

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