Comment by cassepipe
7 months ago
The reason why it seems to apply to makefiles in particular is because most people think life is too short to bother learning and understanding makefiles so it seems to happen there more than anywhere else.
Also no matter how complicated and subtle you think your makefile is, true experts will tell you it's wrong and you instead copy their apparently over-engineered, hard to understand makefile
> Also no matter how complicated and subtle you think your [thing] is, true experts will tell you it's wrong and you instead copy their apparently over-engineered, hard to understand [thing]
not unique at all to makefiles, probably not even in the top ten [things] that "true" experts like to "help" with