You seem to imply that once you understand make, you won't dislike it anymore or don't want to see it replaced or will stop criticizing it. Criticising it?!? M

You seem to imply that once you understand make, you won't dislike it anymore or don't want to see it replaced or will stop criticizing it. Criticising it?!? Make is an ingenious tool! It's a phenomenal tool, if one just looks at the flexibility of it, never mind all the super useful built in rules that it comes with out of the box! For one thing, the better you understand a tool the more correct your critique on it can be. Correct, but therein lies the rub: the author of the essay clearly does not command understanding of Make, and even worse, he believes he does. Worst of all, he is not alone: this Make hate pops up every so often here, one can clearly see who is learning build systems and who eventually hit Make (all build systems' roads lead to Make sooner or later) and just didn't get it. By my own experience, it's mostly Windows users turned GNU/Linux. I would be curious to learn whether I'm correct in the case of the author of the essay, really curious.