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"Makefiles are inherently evil" [0]

While I agree with this sentiment, it's hard to know whether it's more or less evil than munging imperative and declarative build instructions in an XML file ...

Has anyone ever just thought about just replacing the tabs with something else and leaving it at that?

My own experiences with Make show there's a bunch of other things that make it difficult to manage and maintain beyond a certain point.

[0] https://ant.apache.org/manual/intro.html




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