The observation was that people at the time were adding clumsy
programming-language features to make,
which then executed commands it didn't really understand (ie, couldn't even
parse them),
and might it not be better just to add dependency operators (and others as
needed) to a well-designed command language.

On 30 August 2012 21:36, Jason Catena <jason.catena@gmail.com> wrote:

> This to me is not different from
> the current way files are made with make tools, so I'm not sure what
> was gained by bundling it into the shell.
>