Not responding to this email, apologies to Luther and Arnold.

I’ve posted on COFF a related note on Unix Philosophy, 
Would appreciate comments & corrections.

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> On 19 Jun 2024, at 16:50, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> 
> Luther Johnson <luther.johnson@makerlisp.com> wrote:
> 
>> and I can't really see what CMake does for me that I
>> can't do for myself.
> 
> I suspect that it's biggest advantage is that the same (set of)
> CMake input files can produce Makefiles, config files for Visual
> Studio, and also for Apple's IDE / build system.
> 
> I also don't like it; it mixes system configuration with build
> dependencies and is ugly and hard to learn. But that's a separate
> issue.
> 
> Arnold

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