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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Ouabache Designworks
(z3qmtr45 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> I find it funny how people fight over which language is better or
>> which VCS but no one really cares or wants to care about what make
>> they have.
>
> I find the same problem with shells. Hate having a script bomb because I am
> using a different shell than the author.
>
> The only thing more disgusting than the fact that we are still using
> something as ancient as make is that fact that after all of these years ,
> noboby has come up with anything better than it.

Lots of things have been come up with actually.  The problem is that none
of them are enough better to be worth it.  Unlike almost dead languages like
lisp, Make works fine and is feature-complete.  As the number of strange OS
that must be supported has declined some projects have actually gone back
to straight Make from CMake autoconf etc.  The lesson here is that forks
and reinventions aren't worth it unless they really are radically different.

Britton