Cool ideas here even though a lot of comments are pouring water on it. Reminds me of this post by Ted dzubia where he uses makefiles for data processing [1].

Cool ideas here even though a lot of comments are pouring water on it. Reminds me of this post by Ted dzubia where he uses makefiles for data processing [1]. I like reading about novel uses of tools other than their original intent. 1- http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2011/02/stupid-unix-tricks-workflow-control-with-gnu-make.html http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2011/02/stupid-unix-tric...