Well, partly because b2/bjam is aboslutely awful and obtuse, etc. etc. I did some semi-serious experimenting with it at one point and it was just... well, awfu

Well, partly because b2/bjam is aboslutely awful and obtuse, etc. etc. I did some semi-serious experimenting with it at one point and it was just... well, awful. It basically did very few things right. (BTW, don't take this as criticism of the authors of said system. I just don't "we" had learned enough and infrastructure was incredibly far behind what we have now. So I don't "blame" them in the least. It's just a product of its time.)