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by obezyian 266 days ago
> but TFA never claimed it was supposed to be "easy".

TFA> Another reason to use it is this turned out to be a surprisingly easy task.

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I stand corrected.
I suppose I'm biased. I'm used metaprogramming it by now.

I'm very prone to being entranced by the eerily lisp-like nature of GNU Make. Got side tracked in one of my projects trying to recreate GNU autoconf inside it. That was the day I finally understood what autoconf was even doing.