Good ideas :-), no time :-(

[Neil Hodgson]

> 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.)

   There are some interesting proposals for make replacements written in
Python:

http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com/sc_build

   Neil