GNU make is a giant string-chopping hairball written in C over the past 30 years by numerous authors. Paul D. Smith (the current maintainer and the author of th

GNU make is a giant string-chopping hairball written in C over the past 30 years by numerous authors. Paul D. Smith (the current maintainer and the author of this article) has actually been doing a lot of codebase cleanup over the past years. But still any major change is a monumental task.