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Date: Fri,  5 Nov 2010 11:39:14 -0600
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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 development
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> To me, make is a tool for generating an acyclic, directed graph of
> dependencies =C2=A0between build steps from some explicit and some wildca=
rd rules
> -- and then traversing it in a sensible order. How's that for daily use s=
hell?

your focus is too narrowed on building. a sequence of commands piping
output to each other is also a directed acyclic graph.