Frankly, I have much better things to do than writing my own ad-hoc, bug-ridden implementation of Lisp^h^h Make. I did look at SCons years ago, which is a Pyth

Frankly, I have much better things to do than writing my own ad-hoc, bug-ridden implementation of Lisp^h^h Make. I did look at SCons years ago, which is a Python-based build-system, but as I recall it ended up being the worse of both worlds by attempting a declarative syntax that was marred by its imperative warts.