I had a boss who once quipped that CMake became much easier for him to understand and write once he realized it was just a really shitty version of BASIC with o

I had a boss who once quipped that CMake became much easier for him to understand and write once he realized it was just a really shitty version of BASIC with only global variables. (He later added "but two separate namespaces for them" because of the prevalent use of environmental variables as well as CMake-specific variables)