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The creator of Make actually apologized for it, as far as I have read.

I'm very happy with Make, though I have to agree, the syntax could be better. I don't mind using tabs, but why are spaces not OK as well? It would also be good to be able to not have to break long lines or multiline things with backslashes all the time. Yes you can set that oneshell thingy, but that is inconvenient in other ways, because it is for the whole file instead of a single command or a single target.

So it could be better, definitely, but it does the job of doing DAGs well and it is available on most systems, so I don't have to add some huge tree of dependencies just to run tasks.