Most folks don't use it as such, but make is a logic programming language, ala Prolog. It can use a long chain of translations without you telling it the seque

Most folks don't use it as such, but make is a logic programming language, ala Prolog. It can use a long chain of translations without you telling it the sequence. For example, I could #include "foo.pdu.der.h" in a C file, and make figured out that it needed to find foo.pdu.xer, translate it from XER to DER as a "pdu" PDU, then hexlify it as an char array into foo.pdu.der.h. It is a very flexible tool if you can get past the syntax (and always use --warn-undefined-variables).