I wanted to learn makefiles to generate a static website. Quickly ran into some massive limitations - one of which is that it completely broke apart when filen

I wanted to learn makefiles to generate a static website. Quickly ran into some massive limitations - one of which is that it completely broke apart when filenames had spaces in them. "But why would you do that you're doing it wrong" - don't care wanted spaces in filenames. Ended up switching Rake (a make like DSL written in ruby) and never looked back. Not only can you do all the make declarative stuff, but you get the full power of ruby to mess around with strings.