The observation was that people at the time were adding clumsy programming-language features to make,<div>which then executed commands it didn&#39;t really understand (ie, couldn&#39;t even parse them),<br><div>and might it not be better just to add dependency operators (and others as needed) to a well-designed command language.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 August 2012 21:36, Jason Catena <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jason.catena@gmail.com" target="_blank">jason.catena@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":360">This to me is not different from<br>
the current way files are made with make tools, so I&#39;m not sure what<br>
was gained by bundling it into the shell.</div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>