Arguably the simplest Makefile is not having any Makefile and just doing make <executable name> The next step up would be a Makefile that is essentially jus

Arguably the simplest Makefile is not having any Makefile and just doing make <executable name> The next step up would be a Makefile that is essentially just a set of sh scripts, like your example. But I think it's supposed to be implied that the blog is specifically talking about medium-sized C projects.