[jimbokun]

I have a coworker who uses make for tasks that do not fit comfortably in a few lines of shell script, and it can make for very elegant and readable solutions. Without giving in to the procedural constructs that are so awkward in shell scripting languages.

[tomcam]

That opened my mind… 30 years after I started using make. D’oh!

[jjtheblunt]

i do that too...folks seem surprised, but it's handy