> There was a time when people would have said the same about make. The shell is the simple command that is guaranteed to be on all Unix systems from the get go

> There was a time when people would have said the same about make. The shell is the simple command that is guaranteed to be on all Unix systems from the get go. Make is the new kid on the block. I seem to recall it being praised very highly at the time as a great tool that saved many billable expensive CPU minutes and made a developer's job so much easier.