Linked by Jussi Pakkanen on Tue 17th Apr 2007 18:20 UTC
Let me begin by telling you a little story. Some time ago I needed to run a script at work once a day. We had tons of machines ranging from big Unix servers to Linux desktops. Due to various reasons the script could only be run on a desktop machine. However using cron was disabled on desktops. All other machines allowed cron.
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So, instead of writing a makefile ("config file for make"), we now write a config file for the makefile generator generator. Nice improvement.
This is not limited to C/C++:
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12
This is part of the reason why people are migrating en mass to languages like Ruby and Python.