Makefile is like Bash. It's effective, ubiquitous and pleasant to work with simple logic. In my case, if I need to scale to a more complicated problem, I would

Makefile is like Bash. It's effective, ubiquitous and pleasant to work with simple logic. In my case, if I need to scale to a more complicated problem, I would use Rakefile and Ruby (in replace of Makefile and Bash).