Good ideas :-), no time :-(

[Courageous]

> > So, I came with this "simple" idea, that we should have tools for converting
> > Makefiles and shell scripts into specialised Python scripts.  (And why not
> > `sed' and `awk' as well, once on that road, the same as Perl once did.)

As for make, I suspect you're using the wrong make program.
Gnumake scripts are, if written correctly, very succint.
With dependency evaluation and the like, make very
much does what it's designed to do, IMO.



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