Hmm. "Bad, very bad..." seems like an exaggeration. I wrote that article in June 2004. Although the initial commit for remake (which I covered in 2007) was in A

Hmm. "Bad, very bad..." seems like an exaggeration. I wrote that article in June 2004. Although the initial commit for remake (which I covered in 2007) was in April 2004 the initial release was... at the same time as my article. My article was published on June 27, 2004: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20080202093023/http://www.cmcrossroads.com/articles/ask-mr.-make/printing-the-value-of-a-makefile-variable.html https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20080202093023/http://www.c... remake preparing for first release on June 12, 2004: https://github.com/rocky/remake/commit/f9ad86874dae33ea894853f48e87aeae6743bd1b https://github.com/rocky/remake/commit/f9ad86874dae33ea89485...