I use make for scientific data analysis, and it has saved me a tremendous amount of time. It's definitely worth the investment to learn the language, in my opi

I use make for scientific data analysis, and it has saved me a tremendous amount of time. It's definitely worth the investment to learn the language, in my opinion. I know many folks have tried writing their own version to "fix" the arcane parts, and maybe they're better in some use cases, but make is thoroughly documented and tested and quite general purpose.